dilettantist

Watson has not simply written a survey of the German intellect from Goethe to Botho Strauss – nothing so dilettantist.

The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century by Peter Watson – review James Buchan 2010

Artists have a more respectable service to perform than this dilettantist notion of beauty implies.

Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley

Those alone, perhaps, are in a position to pass a fair judgment upon democracy who, without lapsing into dilettantist sentimentalism, recognize that all scientific and human ideals have relative values.

Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916

This being so, any person who, having perhaps heard that I am a Socialist, attempts to persuade you that my interpretation of The Rhine Gold is only "my socialism" read into the works of a dilettantist who borrowed an idle tale from an old saga to make an opera book with, may safely be dismissed from your consideration as an ignoramus.

The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring George Bernard Shaw 1903

You use language that has an ugly history ”dilettantist” for people who aren’t doing things your way.

Various open pages on my desktop 2005