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dilettante::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | dilettanteish, dilettantish, sciolistic |
Examples of dilettante
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Franklin Roosevelt was regarded as a dilettante and an intellectual lightweight.
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It depicts a serpentine dragon, a motif the dilettante would identify as Chinese.
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What Fonda resents, though, is any inference that she's insincere or a dilettante.
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Such dilettante and often crass audiences are giving the music he loves a bad name.
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Be as careless as you like with the dilettante Rossetti or the pompous Burne-Jones.
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Sherman, who recently celebrated his 90th birthday, is no wealthy dilettante.
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Bono's involvement with Africa began in typical celebrity-dilettante fashion.
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Of course, my critics would say that I'm a dilettante and simply unwilling to commit.
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Being a dilettante bird-watcher, I soon lost track of all the species we had spotted.
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- Dabbler: an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
- Showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish; "his dilettantish efforts at painting"
- Dilettante is Ali Project's twelfth album. The album includes Chinkon Shou, the B-side from their single for Code Geass.
- (Dilettantes (album)) Dilettantes is the eighth studio album by Australian rock band You Am I, released on September 13, 2008. It was recorded at Electric Avenue Studios in Sydney and Sing Sing South in Melbourne before being mixed at Studio 301 in Sydney. ...
- (The Dilettantes) The Dilettantes are a neo-psychedelic/indie/garage rock band based in San Francisco. The band is fronted by "tambourine man" and "spokesman for the revolution" Joel Gion, a founding member of the neo-psychedelic rock band, The Brian Jonestown Massacre.
- An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest; A person with a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge. (Sometimes derogatory.); Pertaining to or like a dilettante
- Noun. Any person who can spell "dilettante."
- A dabbler in an art or a field of knowledge; an amateur
- (n) - amateur, superficial
