An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge.
Синонимы
Examples for "dilettante"
Examples for "dilettante"
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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.
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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.
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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.
6
Well, in that case it's probably just some dabbler in the esoteric arts.
7
He was the real professional, and I was only the dabbler.
8
From youth I have always been a dabbler in medical and mystical study.
9
There were times when this philanthropic dabbler in politics was irritating.
10
Nietzsche inaugurated the discussion of Wagner as a dilettante, as a musical dabbler.
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He was Cesare's uncle, a surgeon by profession, and a dabbler in alchemy.
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The dabbler really knows nothing of how they do it.
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Odds were good that this wasn't some petty, jealous whim of an arcane dabbler.
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That's the worst of being a dabbler in most trades.
15
I was a dabbler in things I didn't necessarily want to be tied to.
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Pococurante, one who cares little and knows less: a dabbler