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- adjective Somewhat like a dilettante.
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- adjective Alternative form of
dilettantish .
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- adjective showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish
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Examples
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A good many people in my own class are impatient of them, and think of them as harmless recreations; I fall back upon a few like-minded friends, with whom I can talk easily and unreservedly of such things, without being thought priggish or donnish or dilettanteish or unintelligible.
At Large Arthur Christopher Benson 1893
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