dilettante

Example Sentences

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"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

“In a world of dilettantes,” Mr. Kosky said, “he was the real thing.”

From New York Times

A third former employee told me my assessment of Williams — essentially, a callous dilettante — was unfair.

From The Verge

“Little known outside a rarefied ’70s jet set of rock ’n’ rollers, movie stars, socialites and European dilettantes,” Hagan would write, “his name was once a secret handshake.”

From New York Times

The commanding officer of the fort is an inept dilettante played by Ken Berry.

From Washington Post