ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Dilettantely

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Dilettantely is an adverb meaning In the manner of a dilettante.

Meaning

In the manner of a dilettante.

Example Sentences

I must dilettantely raise the curtain.
The meal was a silent one, neither eating, but dilettantely sipping the tea, and shortly both arose.
“I am living a very full life, but doing everything rather dilettantely,” he told himself at year’s end.
(Another example of apocryphal information getting passed along dilettantely until it becomes the truth.)

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dilettantishly, dilettantly, dabblingly, amateurly, inexpertly, undiligently.

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