| He confounded those who thought he was too dilettantish and self-effacing to be a proper president. |
| These are illustrations of how dilettantish much of what passes for environmental protest truly is. |
| The stigma attached to student films is that they are amateurish, dilettantish and excusable on the grounds that they're made by non-professionals. |
| Certainly, raising barriers to entry may weed out the most dilettantish healers. |
| His dilettantish manner was gone for good, as was also his foppish beard. |
| 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. |
