DILETTANTE in a Sentence
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Example sentences for DILETTANTE, such as:
1. What is to me a means of livelihood is to him the merest hobby of a dilettante.
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Meanings and Examples of DILETTANTE
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dilettante
n. an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
a. showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish
Classic Sentence:
1 "I thought I'd be a dilettante mother, but I'm as dismayingly natural as Mrs. Bogart," she boasted.
2 What is to me a means of livelihood is to him the merest hobby of a dilettante.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter
Context Highlight In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter
3 He must be neither a dilettante nor a virtuoso: but he must be artistic.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
4 Behind all its curiousness, so attractive alike to sage and dilettante, lie its dim dangers, throwing across us shadows at once grotesque and awful.
Example Sentence:
1 After distinguished service in World War II, he married a New York socialite and reacquired his reputation as a hard-partying dilettante.