| I said a moment ago that the most striking characteristic of the dilettanti is unoriginality. |
| He was expelled in 1797 on the ground of his authorship of the Letter to the Society of dilettanti. |
| He knew that the kings were dilettanti, that the theory of the aristocracies was liberal. |
| In the available literature on film studies, dabblers and dilettantes abound. |
| Pankaj is like those dilettantes one reads about in Somerset Maugham, who fear boredom more than old age, death, poverty or mendicancy. |
| He wants to be a character from Brideshead Revisited sipping brandy Alexanders and being seduced by hopelessly wealthy dilettantes. |
