dallier

Such poets are no dalliers with anaemic feelings.

You see by my brusque ways, my bluntness, that I have been no dallier in drawing-rooms, no holder of lady’s silk.

Believe me, the Britisher is a mere dallier in comparison with his American golfing cousin.

Finally the last dallier had his say, and, after an exchange of cordial good nights, departed.

These men are at any rate ‘thorough’; they are not dilettante dalliers between two opinions.