dilettante , also: dilettanti

I have to call these people what they are: dilettantes.

He had money and was always a bit of a dilettante.

David was no dilettante; he played the center of the court.

"I always thought of myself as such a dilettante," she said.

It seemed to him there was something of the dilettante about this guy.

I started out as a dilettante, and became an amateur.

Not everyone who grows up at court is a dilettante.

They consider someone who plays a game through only once a dilettante.

Nelson was not a dilettante, for all he might have seemed like one.

Now there are three of us, and I've become a laundry dilettante.

Laurel may be many things, but she is not a dilettante mother.

There is now no room for the amateur or the dilettante in the business.

However, it is now quite clear that these dilettantes are not up to the task in hand.

The skating school itself, by contrast, is not for dilettantes.

Fry was something of a dilettante until he went to France.

They are not dilettantes in the world of online reviews.

Vicious dilettantes more than anything else, though not without their uses.

Then again, he has been portrayed as a dilettante or lightweight.

More than once he has described himself as a dilettante and an artist without talent.

In any case, he could not bear for anyone to call him a dilettante since that might very likely be his fate.

Even when alone, so that you will never forget inadvertently, To be a dilettante?

However, over time he is accepted as a harmless, if dilettante, member of the community.

They are not classes for dilettantes seeking a light load.

If I have to choose, give me the dilettante who pays taxes any day!

A dilettante with time to kill and curiosity to be satisfied.