What is "dilettantish"

Usage examples of "dilettantish".

To most people in any case the whole idea of reforming language would seem either dilettantish or crankish.

I had only a dilettantish idea what he was talking about, a modest background from answering a rash of alarmed questions about patented new forms of life.

I was going to say, I will not puff up my paintings like a dilettantish dabbler.

His linguistic writings, though often rather wildly dilettantish, are interesting for his great insight into the shades of meaning of words, for his pious, if uninformed, interest in Old Russian literature and folklore, and for the excellent Russian in which they are written.

According to one version, it was King Norodom Sihanouk, the dilettantish Cambodian leader, who first used the term Khmer Rouge, almost as a term of endearment.