dilettante
noun
a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.
dilettanti
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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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The directors are just so many dilettanti who don't know their job.
From Time Magazine Archive
This kind of heroic misinformation provoked some murmuring from English dilettanti who, arriving in Rome armed with nothing but their recollections of Piranesi's engravings, were disappointed by the city.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of the finest early lithographs were by French dilettanti whose names have not transpired.
From Time Magazine Archive
Joseph Clemens, the first of these, was himself a composer, after the usual fashion of royal dilettanti, no doubt, but a keen discerner of talent in others.
From Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) by Elliott Graeme
Whoever takes an interest in violin making will undoubtedly be pleased to hear more particulars in regard to dilettanti violin makers and their patrons.
From George Gem?nder's Progress in Violin Making With Interesting Facts Concerning the Art and Its Critics in General by George Gem?nder
