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Meanings of dilettante in English

Portuguese
diletante
Catalan
diletant

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

diletante

Showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish.

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Examples for "dilettantish"
1
In some musicians, eclecticism can seem dilettantish but with Cologne pianist and composer Florian Ross, it's for real.
The Irish Times
2
The disparate elements of Godwin's dilettantish existence suddenly fell together as neatly as the facets of a Rubik's cube.
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontie...
3
His knowledge of the building, its numerous incredible artworks and history, far outweighed the dilettantish witterings I endured from Melissa (who obviously I fancy).
The Guardian
1
Must there not be in this subtle distribution much of what is arbitrary and sciolistic?
Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries / Inter...
Usage of dilettante in English
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
6
But Norham, the outsider and dilettante, was conscious of a kindled mind.
The Case of Richard Meynell
7
He becomes, by degrees, first self-repressed and unemotional, then a cynical dilettante.
Mornings in the College Chapel / Short Addresses to Young Men on...
8
Fortunately also, for him, he was no mere dreamer, or idle dilettante.
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Portrait of Mr. W.H., and Other ...
9
One imagines him, from his childhood, as a perfect connoisseur, a dilettante.
Old and New Masters
10
What am I really, a little dilettante or a great big donkey?
Venus in Furs
11
The products of this workplace were, however, those of the most uninspired dilettante.
Imajica: Complete Edition
12
David was no dilettante; he played the center of the court.
The gunslinger
13
He was a dilettante who, at bottom, held no political beliefs at all.
11/22/63
14
He was a dilettante in love, as he was in art.
Dangerous Days
15
A dilettante is someone who can't tell the difference between fashion and style.
The Irish Times
16
The manager of the Rancho de las Sombras was no dilettante.
Whirligigs
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Portuguese
diletante
Catalan
diletant
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