Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Inclined to or characterized by dilettantism.
Wiktionary
- adj. amateurish
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Dilettanteish.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish.
Examples
“After the Stuttgart match, Veh termed his team's defensive performance "dilettantish," adding to reporters that "the number of goals we let in is deadly for a coach.”
“This trend is common among today's dilettantish new generation of "urban exploration photographers," who display photographs of buildings - or even sets of photos from various buildings - under false names, with either absent or misleading contextual information.”
“And in itself it's part of the American heritage, something that echoes with Jefferson's always ambivalent and frequently dilettantish attitude toward political violence.”
“As good as those might seem in theory at least to some people, coming from Mr. Thaksin the ideas are gimmicky, dilettantish and often cynical.”
The Wall Street Journal: Thailand Caught on the Thaksin Rebound
“But for him, music is more than a dilettantish diversion.”
“This job has been characterized by some as a dilettantish distraction, but those close to the fighter describe him as genuinely torn between the ring and politics.”
“India cheered, genuinely pleased that her dilettantish friend was putting her intelligence to use.”
“In the second half, beginning in 1997, I was grieving the bounty -- so skewed, so dilettantish -- that I prayed for the lean years to return.”
Roya Hakakian: The Feast and Famine of Iran Coverage in U.S. Media
“While zipping up, he reassured himself that the mediocre painting in the bathroom had been the product of one of her dilettantish explorations.”
“She made writing seem so airy and dilettantish that her subsequent novels, though many of them successes in Europe, never earned her the literary respect they deserved.”
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