dilettante
noun
a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.
dilettanteish
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a word derived from
dilettante.
Example Sentences
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It is without either story or ranch; it is about some dilettanteish people who go out to a Kansas sheep farm, talk Chopin, and wash their fingers in finger bowls.
From Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations by J. Frank (James Frank) Dobie
But of all the lovers of Nature, the children are the least dilettanteish.
From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani
