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Meanings of dabbler in English

Portuguese
diletante
Catalan
diletant

An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge.

diletante

Any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling.

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Examples for "dilettante"
Examples for "dilettante"
1
A wandering dilettante, the worst type of the pseudo-culture of our universities.
The Half-Hearted
2
A scholar-dilettante, such as she had met in the Court of Bel.
Dragonshadow
3
But Williams is no dilettante, he is deadly serious about his music.
Reuters
4
This antiquated fussiness of the dilettante little nobleman was sickening to her.
Vittoria — Volume 2
5
I would become an expert, demonstrate that I wasn't just a dilettante.
The Irish Times
1
How often do we hear the sciolist condemned in these words:
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English Hist...
2
Now she was a pedant; and then a sciolist.
St. Elmo
3
If he were a sciolist or a wrongheaded fanatic, this would be a serious evil.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
4
You had better ask Mr. Bradlaugh, or some eminent popular sciolist Huxley or Spencer would do.
'That Very Mab'
5
Music refuses to give up its secrets in a formula and at last eludes the sciolist with his ever-ready theorem.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 / Little J...
Usage of dabbler in English
1
And I am only a dabbler in that as in everything else.
The Trumpeter Swan
2
Sainte Croix, who had been in Italy, was a dabbler in poisons.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2
3
As a dabbler in mines he had been out of his element.
The Right of Way — Volume 03
4
John was a dabbler, a sort of Renaissance man, if you will.
Wired
5
He's a fraud and a dabbler, and Mr. Lockhart shall have his evidence.
The Apocalypse Codex
6
Well, in that case it's probably just some dabbler in the esoteric arts.
The call of kerberos: twilight of kerberos
7
He was the real professional, and I was only the dabbler.
Greenmantle
8
From youth I have always been a dabbler in medical and mystical study.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volu...
9
There were times when this philanthropic dabbler in politics was irritating.
Lifted Masks; stories
10
Nietzsche inaugurated the discussion of Wagner as a dilettante, as a musical dabbler.
The new yorker
11
He was Cesare's uncle, a surgeon by profession, and a dabbler in alchemy.
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
12
The dabbler really knows nothing of how they do it.
Certain Personal Matters
13
Odds were good that this wasn't some petty, jealous whim of an arcane dabbler.
Blood rites
14
That's the worst of being a dabbler in most trades.
The Half-Hearted
15
I was a dabbler in things I didn't necessarily want to be tied to.
The Guardian
16
Pococurante, one who cares little and knows less: a dabbler
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
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Portuguese
diletante
Catalan
diletant
Dabbler through the time