dilettante
Example Sentences
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"I like facts, I like knowledge, I like having wide interests. There's various ways of describing such a person, dilettante might be one way and polymath might be another."
From BBC
“Not me. I’m a dilettante. My governing word is ‘curiosity.’”
From New York Times
Kenner has described the hip-hop star as a naive amateur diplomat — a dilettante, not a criminal.
From Washington Post
It is an expert on some subjects and a dilettante on others.
From New York Times
But he is also a deeply polarizing character, mocked by some critics as a dilettante or sound bite philosopher.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
