Meaning

In the manner of a dilettante..

Example Sentences

The meal was a silent one, neither eating, but dilettantely sipping the tea, and shortly both arose.

It was played with moderate success 20 years ago by Edwin Booth, although presented dilettantely off and on many years preceding.

For four generations the men had been educated to a profession which was more or less dilettantely pursued, while a sufficient income from herds and horses made life a series of gracious gestures.

I must dilettantely raise the curtain.

“I am living a very full life, but doing everything rather dilettantely,” he told himself at year’s end.

Typical examples are the attitudes of the so-called Green Party and thic several Environmental Groups and other similar groups who, all dilettantely in a façade protest, humiliated nature in Lambach Au shamefully.

And he readily admitted to Maria Sommer that he realized how complex and demanding acting was only when he “dilettantely” took upon himself the role of Lobkowitz at the premiere of his own Mein Kampfin 1987.

(Another example of apocryphal information getting passed along dilettantely until it becomes the truth.)

Word Forms

• more dilettantely
• most dilettantely
• dilettantly

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When Should You Use Dilettantely?

Use dilettantely when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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