Usage examples (5)

• A miserable bungler, a wretched dilettant — or have you another word for it?
• The sainted O'Connor is actually the archetype of the vapid jurist who for 20 years injected her personal feelings into law rather than go with deep-rooted intellectual...
• Verse, however exquisite, is almost valueless if its appeal is merely technical or merely academic, if it pleases only the sophisticated palate of the dilettant, if it...
• This racial individuality is our immediate hope; it is our safeguard against mere craftsmanship, against dilettant dexterity, against cleverness for its own sake,...