If the artist is unsuccessful, we consider him a mere dilettante.

Four pipes, reverentially inhaled... it was almost too much, for a mere dilettante.

He had the range of a mere dilettante, but everywhere the full grasp of the master.

Now, at last (he said to himself), I am really a citizen, not a mere dilettante.

And here let us say that the mere dilettante and the amateur ruralist may as well keep their hands off.

The right touch just then might have determined his future: he was quite as willing to become a Veritist as to remain a mere Dilettante.