dilettante
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Two of our esteemed gubernatorial candidates, the cowboy and the dilettante, apparently could not find ties for the first debate Wednesday night, showing up with dress shirts casually unbuttoned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
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
Charles wasn’t a dilettante; he was serious about the breeding and created his own new lines of pigeons.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
Momoa is more introspective, careful never to imply that his friends in the sector — Dwayne Johnson, with Teremana Tequila, and Ryan Reynolds, with Aviation Gin — are dilettantes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2023
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
In a backslapping musical world of insipid dilettantes, Mark and his music stand for absolute conviction, absolute meaning and the absolute refusal to compromise your vision.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 26, 2019
Rabid Stranger Things fans, rabid Stranger Things dilettantes, and rabid Stranger Things newbies alike have a lot to look forward to, assuming they develop a cure for rabies before Stranger Things returns sometime in 2019.
From Slate ● Dec. 10, 2018
Ben thought of Charlie and Jamie less as professional money managers than as dilettantes or, as he put it, “a couple of smart guys just punting around in the markets.”
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Some of the finest early lithographs were by French dilettanti whose names have not transpired.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
There are some dilettanti violin makers in America who consider violin making their business, and there are others who do not make it their chief business.
From George Gem?nder's Progress in Violin Making With Interesting Facts Concerning the Art and Its Critics in General by Gem?nder, George
It had ceased to be the spontaneous expression of a dominant ideal, and had degenerated into a pastime for dilettanti.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
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