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

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

Adventure Mode is an arbitrary game, and there is something crudely dilettantish about it, like Marie Antoinette playacting on her private farm.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2015

The disparate elements of Godwin's dilettantish existence suddenly fell together as neatly as the facets of a Rubik's cube.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce