What is "dilettantes"

Usage examples of "dilettantes".

That would violate the Donovan's Dilettantes code of honor "Tell me, Eddie, did your kid inherit your undersized wang?

Ever since Zamar had become fashionable, the crowd that gathered to hear him speak had been increasingly composed of the dabblers, amateurs, and dilettantes he detested.

Alastair was a member of the Zamarian Society, but until recently Matthias had dismissed him as one of the many dilettantes who dabbled in the lore of ancient Zamar purely for reasons of fashion.

As a matter of fact, I was under the impression that Colchester considered that only fashionable dilettantes and amateurs attended salons such as mine.

It was invented by a group of cork-brained dilettantes in the Zamarian Society shortly after word reached them that Rutledge had died in the labyrinth.

He wondered, too, whether his isolation among nothing but unexacting dilettantes was not already affecting his prowess in the Glass Bead Game.

My Game course was only a series of summer classes for pitiable worldlings and dilettantes like myself.

Amateurs talk tactics, dilettantes talk strategy, professionals talk logistics.

The guards, bribed, no longer made any effort to prevent the hail of missiles which the dilettantes threw at the cage, some hitting the bars, others the matted coat of the creature.

He is another of those wealthy dilettantes who are amusing themselves by pretending to be archaeologists.

And then you can go join the other artistic dilettantes and dropouts and mental cases that Sad King Billy collects on whatever Outback world he lives on.