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

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

Even so, you may find yourself cheering her on as she begins to jettison the trappings of a dilettantish rich kid and morphs into a thoughtful artist.

From Washington Post • Aug. 31, 2017

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