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Dilatant
Pilferer
Imperturbable
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Dilettantism
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Example Sentences
Main Entry:
dil·et·tante
[
dil
-i-tahnt
,
dil-i-
tahnt
,
-
tahn
-tey
,
-
tan
-tee
]
/
ˈdɪl
ɪˌtɑnt
,
ˌdɪl
ɪˈtɑnt
,
-ˈtɑn
teɪ
,
-ˈtæn
ti
/
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Part of Speech:
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Main Entry:
dilettante
Part of Speech:
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Main Entry:
dilettante
Part of Speech:
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Example Sentences
Most of my readers don't know I'm a
dilettante
techno musician.
Porter was no
dilettante
composer.
When we separate him from his literary neighbours, it must be as a
dilettante
.
EXPAND
Adjective
Most of my readers don't know I'm a
dilettante
techno musician.
Porter was no
dilettante
composer.
Noun
When we separate him from his literary neighbours, it must be as a
dilettante
.
We were friends, but never easy -- I'd always had the feeling he thought me a lightweight or a
dilettante
.
If his manner was relaxed, his questioning courteous and his bearing almost patrician, he was no
dilettante
.
Yet he disdained the role of
dilettante
, always testing himself against the rigors of the marketplace.
Gelernter's intellectual adventurism is the mark of a true Renaissance man or the desperate flailing of a scattershot
dilettante
.
They think of him as bit of a
dilettante
, a generalist rather than a specialist, even a journalist.
But some have mocked him as a globe-trotting
dilettante
who spends much of his time abroad instead of on the barricades.
The article portrayed her as an outspoken, partying
dilettante
.
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