His dilettantish efforts at painting. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
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.". From Wordnik.com. [Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE] Reference
That regular updating of the dilettantish LiveJournallers takes. From Wordnik.com. [blogging: act III, scene 1: an allegory in iambic pentameter (more or less) « raincoaster] Reference
More worrying for Merrill, it reeks of dilettantish risk management. From Wordnik.com. [For Merrill Lynch and O'Neal,] Reference
It seemed very showboaty and dilettantish, this ambitious group blog. From Wordnik.com. [Did Brenda Starr Go Too Far?: James Wolcott] Reference
Post-college, it seemed dilettantish and like we were already failing at life. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
More worrying for Merrill's investors, it reeks of dilettantish risk management. From Wordnik.com. [Implausible Deniability?] Reference
A dilettantish mind which tends to rocket off in all directions - never a bad thing. From Wordnik.com. [Actually, there IS something else…] Reference
His dilettantish governing style has yielded up exactly nothing in the way of accomplishments. From Wordnik.com. [The Chimes at Midnight] Reference
India cheered, genuinely pleased that her dilettantish friend was putting her intelligence to use. From Wordnik.com. [One Flight Up] Reference
Greek Civilization and Literature is something you cannot learn in nine months, and it seems to me a rather dilettantish way of wasting time. From Wordnik.com. [A Life in Letters] Reference
Bruce Redford's Dilettanti is not itself a dilettantish work, for the book's succinctness and lightness of touch reflect skill of the highest order. From Wordnik.com. [A Silly, Very Cultured Club] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [If Only Tiger Were] Reference
It makes the point that this heavy international involvement, far from being dilettantish, is of direct value to our domestic position, economically and in other ways. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Good Ones Are All Going: James Wolcott] Reference
Michelle shows her dilettantish bent here by including an. From Wordnik.com. [UUpdates - All updates] Reference
He knows economic history and not just in a dilettantish way. From Wordnik.com. [Reason Magazine - Hit & Run] Reference
Apparently, Obama's glibness is grating on dilettantish moneybags. From Wordnik.com. [The American Spectator] Reference
The evidence stands clear and cannot be falsified by such dilettantish investigations. From Wordnik.com. [Evangelical Textual Criticism] Reference
It made people idle and dilettantish, and second-rate; there was nothing tonic in an Italian life. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XXIV] Reference
Sometimes I found myself wondering, 'He's so dilettantish, how can we depict him as a super-terrorist?'. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Compared to the President, I'm a dilettantish reader, and I don't expect anyone to be impressed by my list. From Wordnik.com. [Stromata Blog] Reference
By making mysticism more democratic, we've also made it more bourgeois, more comfortable, and more dilettantish. From Wordnik.com. [Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email.]
And while the above description might suggest a dilettantish collection of distinct styles, that's not at all what this is. From Wordnik.com. [All articles at Blogcritics] Reference
Lorenzo the Magnificent; he was an aristocrat of dilettantish learning and a worldly patron of expensive arts and architecture. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
It would be fine to leave it at that, if it weren't that the word "enthusiast" sounds dilettantish, somehow not quite serious. From Wordnik.com. [CJR] Reference
In contrast to the Chapmans 'otherwise ardent focus on technical perfection, these give an impression of dilettantish or infantile clumsiness. From Wordnik.com. [Art Knowledge News] Reference
The elegant dissertations of Hurd and Percy, and the Wartons, seem very dilettantish when set beside the imposing systems of aesthetics propounded by Kant. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
What if CBC Radio 2 dumbed down their content with dilettantish hosts and than there was no ear to hear it - would they still play this mainstream Americana?. From Wordnik.com. [InsideTheCBC.com] Reference
We’re looking at a transformation that encourages us all to get a little more dilettantish. From Wordnik.com. [Skills as Network Goods] Reference
Admittedly, nobody is going to mistake the passage for a description of some segment of New Crobuzon, but it’s not dilettantish, either. From Wordnik.com. [Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds – review] Reference
It's a naive and dilettantish notion. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Scorsese Says Even Films Like Precious Should Be in 3D | /Film] Reference
"Bah! that is because you are dilettantish and amateurish. From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch] Reference
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