dilettante
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Titus hands power to Saturninus, the eldest son of the late Roman emperor, played with a comic spin as a peevish dilettante by Matthew Amendt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
And he has often been underestimated, such as when he won a majority government in 2015 at the age of 44, despite being portrayed by his political opponents as something of a dilettante.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2024
Growing up, the conductor Maxime Pascal was a self-identified musical dilettante.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2023
Kenner has described the hip-hop star as a naive amateur diplomat — a dilettante, not a criminal.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2023
Nevertheless, several accomplished alpinists not on her team regarded Pittman as a grandstanding dilettante.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
Him and all the other dilettantes who don’t know the wonders of VistaVision.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025
She and Steven Weber play Debbie and Stew Klein, a couple of boomer dilettantes who crash their kid’s married life with the news that they’re in debt.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2020
What this means in practice is that all of us are Olympics dilettantes.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2018
They got labelled as bandwagon-jumping dilettantes, a state of affairs not helped by their manager Tony Secunda’s penchant for headline-grabbing publicity stunts.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 8, 2016
‘There were no scientists in Stuart England,’ we are told, ‘and all the men we have grouped together under that heading were in their varying degrees dilettantes.’
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
The directors are just so many dilettanti who don't know their job.
From Time Magazine Archive
This kind of heroic misinformation provoked some murmuring from English dilettanti who, arriving in Rome armed with nothing but their recollections of Piranesi's engravings, were disappointed by the city.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of the finest early lithographs were by French dilettanti whose names have not transpired.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Humphrey was seldom seen, being in poor health almost constantly, but their only daughter, Jennie, was one of the foremost of the fashionable of the dilettanti of the city.
From Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives by Allan Pinkerton
The very faults of the composition, which the dilettanti have picked out, were effective to men who had seen Paine on the march, and knew these things were written in sleepless intervals of unwearied labors.
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Moncure Daniel Conway
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