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
"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
It is an expert on some subjects and a dilettante on others.
From New York Times • Mar. 14, 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
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