dilettantish , also: dilettanteish

He inherited them from his wandering father, along with a dilettantish notion of himself as a writer.

I have no desire to judge these oddly dilettantish paintings, but merely to look and learn.

Really, it's the most dilettantish form of stalking: I rifle through only their potential trash.

The answer seems to be that he regarded painting as a more dilettantish activity than sculpture and architecture.

The net is possessed of a sense of its own dilettantish freedom.

Because his education was not the most conventional, his first work in history was dilettantish.

Mountaineers looked down their noses at the dilettantish climbers on the glaciers below.

Other friends have had similarly dilettantish experiences.

It was just about the only place in Germany where women could study art alongside men, the alternative being a dilettantish "ladies' art academy."

Ruses that are applied normally are executed dilettantish and badly planned.

The interpretation it demands seems dilettantish.

The process of 'Imperialization' overtook these dilettantish games concerning Earth.

"Isn't it one of your duties to keep dilettantish composers like Offentur away from me?

While exotic animal husbandry is typically a sideline or a hobby for the farmer, there is seldom anything dilettantish about it.

When Mr. Lamont, 52, entered the race last March, skeptics wrote him off as a dilettantish limousine liberal.

Worse, although her father and the other males shared her frustration at the skymounts' dilettantish attitude, they were hesitant to do anything about it.

Sara has described herself, prior to discovering NXIVM, as "dilettantish."

It finally becomes clear that Sally represents the white majority's stated acceptance of other cultures and the smug, dilettantish multiculturalism that it disguises.

Best of all is Mr. Rickman's Sinclair, who in a welcome departure from his usually sinister roles, gives the dilettantish husband many layers.

Among his clan there was Louis Agassiz Shaw II, a dilettantish novelist who strangled his 60-year-old Irish maid.

The Left hope that the State will become the new religion and that an elite group of intellectuals/ bureaucrats and other dilettantish types become the new priests.

A shocking event lies at the heart of this book: bitter about ancient childhood quarrels, Lucas Graffe hatches a plot to kill his dilettantish brother, Clement.

The designation marking the canonization is frequently deleted so that Val merely sounds like a dilettantish scamp with an eye for the girls and a desire for a good time.

Partly, her interest is a dilettantish itch for excitement; more specifically - and naïvely - she hopes a Zionist involvement will draw in Mark and thaw his frozen indifference.

There is, however, a lot of posing of groups of otherwise uninvolved actors that confuses rather than embroiders the plot; the production is affected and stagey, in a dilettantish way.