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