ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Dilettantishly

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Dilettantishly is an adverb meaning In a dilettantish manner.

Meaning

In a dilettantish manner.

Example Sentences

Superficially, of course, the art of this musician, so airy and dilettantishly brilliant, has little affair with the French State.
“The danger is of complete superficiality in all directions, that you do nothing well, a lot of things . . . ‘dilettante-ishly,’ ” she said.
Certain ministers and church agencies have caught glimmers of these implications, and have entered this field,—timidly, daintily, dilettantishly.
Moreover, communism will lead to an unusual amount of quarrelling; those who work faithfully will feel aggrieved when they see that those who work dilettantishly receive and consume a full portion.

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Related dictionary entries include dilettantely, dilettantly, dabblingly, amateurly, doltishly, sottishly.

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