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

"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 • Nov. 29, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2024

A dilettante prone to colorful tangents, he sees Molly as an object of fascination and a personal cause.

From New York Times • May 29, 2024

Nevertheless, several accomplished alpinists not on her team regarded Pittman as a grandstanding dilettante.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer