dilettante
noun
a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.
dilettantes
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pluralof dilettante.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Momoa is more introspective, careful never to imply that his friends in the sector — Dwayne Johnson, with Teremana Tequila, and Ryan Reynolds, with Aviation Gin — are dilettantes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2023
If anyone’s tempted to suggest that the place is filled with rich dilettantes, he noted that 36 percent of the people in this year’s entering class are eligible to receive Pell Grants for lower-income students.
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2022
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
