Dilettante in a sentence as a noun

She's just some dilettante college chick doing some good works before going off to her real career.

Many of these are either snake oil or well intentioned but doomed dilettante projects.

I don't know why you insist Armstrong is a dilettante without any basis.

But do you really want to have to comment on "The author is a self-important dilettante" or "u r a fag!!!!!

I can't see myself spending money like a trust fund dilettante nor funding yet another startup.

I am moving from a dilettante going to the shell on a per-need basis to a more seasoned terminal native.

But the impression I got of the seven projects which you uploaded to Github, was that you're a bit of a dilettante.

True - often "full stack developer" is synonymous with dilettante

Dilettante in a sentence as an adjective

Steve Jobs was at times a workaholic, but at other times a total dilettante who moved to India to seek enlightenment from a guru, and did a lot of *****.

But as this blog presents it, the curiosity suffers from the greatest threat to curiosity, which is a lack of discipline that ensures the curious person never rises above a dilettante.

The way he currently positions himself is as a persecuted rebel fighting the good fight, its a much better and engaging narrative than narcissistic dilettante with poor impulse control.

"In 1808, Humphry Davy identified the existence of a metal base of alum, which he at first termed alumium...", so whoever the dilettante was can't blame them to too much, for wanted to have a standard spelling for it.

"So-called OS X 'upgrades' now consist largely of ill-conceived dilettante eye-candy features that reduce usability, clutter the user interface and introduce scads of new bugs.

I think this is a weird reply to make to a comment where someone identifies as a "dilettante hypermiler".They are much more likely to be highly aware of how they interact with traffic than they are a dangerous, oblivious obstruction.

Are you aware that the phrase "enemy of the people" is associated with Stalinist propaganda and therefore has overtones of Red Scare and McCarthyism, and in later years a certain dilettante unseriousness on the part of the acusee?

I avoid grappling with a broad conversation about corporate and government corruption and abuse in the field in which I dabble because clinging to my dilettante skill set is the only way I can retain some illusion of agency in a world which is increasingly unjust and beyond my control.

Dilettante definitions

noun

an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge

See also: dabbler sciolist

adjective

showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish; "his dilettantish efforts at painting"

See also: dilettantish dilettanteish sciolistic