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dilettante

adjective as in amateurish

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"But it's not a question of someone's dilettante interest. This is actually really important to advancing people's health. And so there's a lot of .. moral distress if you can't do sex differences research," Ahmed said.

From Salon

Him and all the other dilettantes who don’t know the wonders of VistaVision.

She characterized those years in her autobiography as: “Desultory intellectual chitchat, drugs, hip aristocrats, languid dilettantes and high naughtiness. I knew I was on my path!”

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

Crystal does fine in this environment; he doesn’t come off as a tourist or a dilettante.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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