dilettantish

How To Use dilettantish In A Sentence

• He won't be quite as dilettantish about it and will be focused on that.
• 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. Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE
• But for him, music is more than a dilettantish diversion. The Sweet Science of Songwriting
• Most war movies come off as voyeuristic or dilettantish, but there are three that come to mind which don't seem altogether frivolous.
• As good as those might seem in theory at least to some people, coming from Mr. Thaksin the ideas are gimmicky, dilettantish and often cynical. Thailand Caught on the Thaksin Rebound
• And in itself it's part of the American heritage, something that echoes with Jefferson's always ambivalent and frequently dilettantish attitude toward political violence. Archive 2009-08-01
• Her activism was derided as ideologically dilettantish from an actress encased within the Hollywood system and vainly seeking authenticity through scattergun sloganeering.
• his dilettantish efforts at painting
• The liberal arts began, in this atmosphere, to seem dilettantish by comparison to the hard-nosed managerial disciplines, with their problem-solving ethos and their convincing simulation of a scientific spirit.
• This trend is common among today's dilettantish new generation of "urban exploration photographers," who display photographs of buildings - or even sets of photos from various buildings - under false names, with either absent or misleading contextual information. Ian Ference: On 'Ruin Porn'