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dilettante

adjective as in amateurish

noun as in amateur

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Example Sentences

Crystal does fine in this environment; he doesn’t come off as a tourist or a dilettante.

He dismissed Jurado as a dilettante whose ties to the L.A. chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America make her dangerous to public safety.

At the same time, the Trump rallies seem stale and he looks, more and more, like a delusional dilettante with the demeanor of a dawdling dweeb on downers.

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A dilettante prone to colorful tangents, he sees Molly as an object of fascination and a personal cause.

Supreme Court is calling upon all lower courts to play the role of amateur, dilettante historian.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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