To her firm spirit the idea of working in gloves savoured of dilettantism.

My wife must consider herself quite above a reasonably melodious dilettantism.

The man's patriotic conscience could be felt struggling with his dilettantism.

What finicking dilettantism-wasever such antic, lisping, affecting fantastico?

Its dilettantism has infected the whole public sector.

A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy.

Their critics built up their impotence to issue from dilettantism into a theory, an intolerant theory.

They, too, read to be distracted, choosing an emasculate literature which panders to their essential dilettantism.

And yet these grim old walls are not a dilettantism and dubiety; they are an earnest fact.

George regarded the short thoroughfare made notorious by the dilettantism, the modishness, and the witticisms of art.

Conversational, dilettantism and immensely self-satisfied, it is an exercise in intellectual trickery yet possesses charm and humour.

Society divides naturally into classes, dilettantism and pococurantism dawdling luxuriously here, labor at hand-grip with Destiny there.

Charlatans among the leaders of the new thought, and society dilettantism, both came under his merciless lash.

It is pure dilettantism, again, to seek the moral of Irish commotions in the insurrection of La Vendée.

But as soon as their dilettantism had given place to the rational methods of computers, the problems were solved.

All my so-called study of modern life in former days was the merest dilettantism, mere conceit and boyish pedantry.