The word 'dilettantish' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective used to describe someone who dabbles or tinkers with different activities or subjects without having a serious or committed interest or understanding in any of them. Example: He had a dilettantish approach to his hobbies, trying out different ones every week but never sticking with one for too long.
Even at the time, it seemed so: a dilettantish, illiberal, class-infused blot on what was otherwise a British golden age, for politics and the economy as even the ban's reluctant main architect, Tony Blair, later admitted.
Certainly, raising barriers to entry may weed out the most dilettantish healers.
Mr Flannery is a respected biologist with plenty of published papers to his name, but the book feels dilettantish, with a dizzying array of concepts introduced, briefly discussed, then dispensed with before the reader has had time to digest them.
He confounded those who thought he was too dilettantish and self-effacing to be a proper president.
If the Czechoslovaks didn't want him, they would make him king of Poland, to be crowned at the Wawel castle in Cracow.Havel confounded those who thought he was too dilettantish to be a proper president.
These are illustrations of how dilettantish much of what passes for environmental protest truly is.
His bitingly sardonic dissection of a dilettantish and complacent study of the nature of evil and of human suffering, A Free Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil, by the theological writer Soame Jenyns, may well be the best review in English during the 18th century: This author and Pope perhaps never saw the miseries which they imagine thus easy to be borne.
But it was no dilettantish passion and proved his versatility right enough.
It may sound chaotic and dilettantish, this omnivorous existence.
We learn from the Ptydepe instructor who has been assigned to Gross's organization, "The natural languages originated... spontaneously, uncontrollably, in other words, unscientifically, and their structure is thus, in a certain sense, dilettantish".
Aside from a few of his almost universally praised projects, Johnson has been regarded by some critics and fellow architects as dilettantish, more slave to fashion than serious practitioner.
