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Meanings of dabbler in English
An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge.
Usage of dabbler in English
1
And I am only a dabbler in that as in everything else.
2
Sainte Croix, who had been in Italy, was a dabbler in poisons.
3
As a dabbler in mines he had been out of his element.
4
John was a dabbler, a sort of Renaissance man, if you will.
5
He's a fraud and a dabbler, and Mr. Lockhart shall have his evidence.
6
Well, in that case it's probably just some dabbler in the esoteric arts.
7
He was the real professional, and I was only the dabbler.
8
From youth I have always been a dabbler in medical and mystical study.
9
There were times when this philanthropic dabbler in politics was irritating.
10
Nietzsche inaugurated the discussion of Wagner as a dilettante, as a musical dabbler.
11
He was Cesare's uncle, a surgeon by profession, and a dabbler in alchemy.
12
The dabbler really knows nothing of how they do it.
13
Odds were good that this wasn't some petty, jealous whim of an arcane dabbler.
14
That's the worst of being a dabbler in most trades.
15
I was a dabbler in things I didn't necessarily want to be tied to.
16
Pococurante, one who cares little and knows less: a dabbler
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