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Revered for his prodigious talent and larger-than-life charisma, he also has been criticized by those who’d like to see him focus on conducting and put away his silly stage musicals and other dilettantish distractions.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2023

A former electronics whiz kid, he has squandered his youth on dilettantish studies in physics and anthropology, followed by a series of botched get-rich-quick schemes.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 15, 2019

Even so, you may find yourself cheering her on as she begins to jettison the trappings of a dilettantish rich kid and morphs into a thoughtful artist.

From Washington Post • Aug. 31, 2017

Mr. O’Rourke spent many years as a dilettantish war correspondent, filing grouchy dispatches from places like South Korea, Nicaragua and the Gaza Strip for magazines that included Rolling Stone and The Atlantic.

From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2011

He was exceedingly well fixed in a money way—a sort of dilettantish architect, with offices in the Metropolitan Tower.

From The Destroying Angel by Vance, Louis Joseph