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dilettanti

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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 Graeme, Elliott

There are some dilettanti violin makers in America who consider violin making their business, and there are others who do not make it their chief business.

From George Gem?nder's Progress in Violin Making With Interesting Facts Concerning the Art and Its Critics in General by Gem?nder, George