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dilettante
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synonyms: petit-maître, neophyte, tyro ???
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Definition:one who dabbles in a subject and has only a superficial understanding of that subject; an amateur
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I'd never jogged on a treadmill, however, regarding them as expensive contraptions for dilettantes.
J. Maarten Troost. Headhunters on My Doorstep, p. 33 (2013)
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Since Salo’s ship was powered by UWTB, the Universal Will to Become, its power plant was nothing for a mechanical dilettante to tinker with.
Kurt Vonnegut. The Sirens of Titan (1959)
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He was well acquainted with the way dilettanti have (the cleverer they were the worse he found them) of looking at the works of contemporary artists with the sole object of being in a position to say that art is a thing of the past, and that the more one sees of the new men the more one sees how inimitable the works of the great old masters have remained.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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