dilettantish

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Revered for his prodigious talent and larger-than-life charisma, he also has been criticized by those who’d like to see him focus on conducting and put away his silly stage musicals and other dilettantish distractions.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2023

His Romantic affinity for the remnants of antiquity was at once nonchalantly dilettantish and passionately committed.

From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2023

Once he’s charmed his way into Greenleaf’s company, however, Ripley is reminded of the precariousness of his position, in contrast with his comrade’s dilettantish ease, achieved without effort, simply underwritten by his father’s fortune.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2019

A former electronics whiz kid, he has squandered his youth on dilettantish studies in physics and anthropology, followed by a series of botched get-rich-quick schemes.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 15, 2019

It made one idle and dilettantish and second-rate; it had no discipline for the character, didn't cultivate in you, otherwise expressed, the successful social and other "cheek" that flourished in Paris and London.

From The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by James, Henry