dilettantish

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

From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2023

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

And my admiration for James Levine's conducting has been mostly of the dilettantish variety.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2018

Over this eventually quite monotonous 16-year stretch, Australia approached every Ashes series on a war footing, England with the dilettantish skip of an afternoon trip to the patisserie.

From The Guardian • Jul. 9, 2015

Only, in these pretty, dilettantish cloisters there would probably be no large tickets suspended alongside of the pictorial pottery, inscribed with the monstrous words, Tripe!

From The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. by Various