dilettantes
- plural of dilettante.
Example Sentences
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Him and all the other dilettantes who don’t know the wonders of VistaVision.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025
She and Steven Weber play Debbie and Stew Klein, a couple of boomer dilettantes who crash their kid’s married life with the news that they’re in debt.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2020
What this means in practice is that all of us are Olympics dilettantes.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2018
They got labelled as bandwagon-jumping dilettantes, a state of affairs not helped by their manager Tony Secunda’s penchant for headline-grabbing publicity stunts.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 8, 2016
Ben thought of Charlie and Jamie less as professional money managers than as dilettantes or, as he put it, “a couple of smart guys just punting around in the markets.”
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
