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As a young woman, she was a dilettante whose aspirations were hampered by her lack of self-discipline.dilettante = someone with an interest in an area, but without deep understanding
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I love painting, but I fear my efforts are dilettantish.dilettantish = of a person with an interest in an area, but without real expertise
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She's a self-important dilettante without real understanding of the policies she criticizes.dilettante = someone with an interest in an area, but without deep understanding
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I wasn't some dilettante. (source)
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He was less approving of Mussolini, who was a dabbler and a dilettante. (source)
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Our work together flushing out the more dilettante students has made this school a safer, purer place. (source)dilettante = with an interest in an area, but without deep understanding
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Nevertheless several accomplished alpinists not on her team regarded Pittman as a grandstanding dilettante. (source)dilettante = someone with an interest in an area, but without deep understanding
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I made a remark of this kind to Rutherford, and he replied: "Yes, that's true, and we have a special word of disparagement for them—we call them dilettanti.† (source)dilettanti = people with an interest in a subject, but without deep understandingunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans would spell it dilettantes.
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Historic preservation used to be an elitist hobby, something rich dilettantes dabbled in. (source)
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Broad-browed and strong-chinned, with a fineness in the honest gray eyes that were like Kerry's, Burne was a man who gave an immediate impression of bigness and security—stubborn, that was evident, but his stubbornness wore no stolidity, and when he had talked for five minutes Amory knew that this keen enthusiasm had in it no quality of dilettantism.† (source)
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that is because you are dilettantish and amateurish.† (source)dilettantish = of a person with an interest in an area, but without real expertisestandard suffix: Adding the suffix "-ish" means having the characteristics of. This is the same pattern you see in words like childish and foolish.
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Atkinson's a rich dilettante; he does what he's told, but he doesn't know why or by whom. (source)dilettante = someone with an interest in an area, but without deep understanding
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European Liberals in general, and even our liberal dilettanti, often mix up the final results of socialism with those of Christianity.† (source)dilettanti = people with an interest in a subject, but without deep understanding
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In a dozen years sudden death culled the city of dilettantes until only the Shrike and I remained. (source)
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All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism.† (source)
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and, then, the ardent longing for the realm of the spirit in eternal and deadly war with the equally ardent and holy love of the lost innocence of nature, the whole frightful suspense in vacancy and uncertainty, this condemnation to the transient that can never be valid, that is ever experimental and dilettantish;† (source)dilettantish = of a person with an interest in an area, but without real expertise
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