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Meanings of dilettante in English
Showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish.
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Examples for "dabbler"
Examples for "dabbler"
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.
1
How often do we hear the sciolist condemned in these words:
2
Now she was a pedant; and then a sciolist.
3
If he were a sciolist or a wrongheaded fanatic, this would be a serious evil.
4
You had better ask Mr. Bradlaugh, or some eminent popular sciolist Huxley or Spencer would do.
5
Music refuses to give up its secrets in a formula and at last eludes the sciolist with his ever-ready theorem.
Usage of dilettante in English
1
A wandering dilettante, the worst type of the pseudo-culture of our universities.
2
A scholar-dilettante, such as she had met in the Court of Bel.
3
But Williams is no dilettante, he is deadly serious about his music.
4
This antiquated fussiness of the dilettante little nobleman was sickening to her.
5
I would become an expert, demonstrate that I wasn't just a dilettante.
6
But Norham, the outsider and dilettante, was conscious of a kindled mind.
7
He becomes, by degrees, first self-repressed and unemotional, then a cynical dilettante.
8
Fortunately also, for him, he was no mere dreamer, or idle dilettante.
9
One imagines him, from his childhood, as a perfect connoisseur, a dilettante.
10
What am I really, a little dilettante or a great big donkey?
11
The products of this workplace were, however, those of the most uninspired dilettante.
12
David was no dilettante; he played the center of the court.
13
He was a dilettante who, at bottom, held no political beliefs at all.
14
He was a dilettante in love, as he was in art.
15
A dilettante is someone who can't tell the difference between fashion and style.
16
The manager of the Rancho de las Sombras was no dilettante.
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