Sample Sentences for
dilettante
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    I wasn't some 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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    David was no dilettante; he played the center of the court.  (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)
    unconventional 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)
    dilettantes = people with an interest in a subject, but without deep understanding
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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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    that is because you are dilettantish and amateurish.†  (source)
    standard 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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    He knew that Vronsky could not be prevented from amusing himself with painting; he knew that he and all dilettanti had a perfect right to paint what they liked, but it was distasteful to him.†  (source)
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    In a dozen years sudden death culled the city of dilettantes until only the Shrike and I remained.  (source)
    dilettantes = people with an interest in a subject, but without deep understanding
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    A dilettantism[496] in nature is barren and unworthy.†  (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)
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