dilettante in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for dilettante in the English»French Dictionary

I.dilettante [Brit ˌdɪlɪˈtanteɪ, ˌdɪlɪˈtanti, Am ˌdɪləˈtɑnt, dɪləˈtɑnti] N

dilettante

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II.dilettante [Brit ˌdɪlɪˈtanteɪ, ˌdɪlɪˈtanti, Am ˌdɪləˈtɑnt, dɪləˈtɑnti] ADJ

dilettante person

dilettante

dilettante attitude

de dilettante

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dilettante

amateur, dilettante pej

dilettante in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for dilettante in the English»French Dictionary

dilettante <-s [or -ti]> [ˌdɪlɪˈtænti, Am -əˈtɑ:nt] N pej

dilettante

dilettante mf

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English

His patronage was exercised, not from vanity or a mere dilettante love of letters, but with a view to the higher interest of the state.

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People said he was cold, a calculator, a dilettante.

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Some have dismissed him as a romantic revolutionary and a playboy, a vapid dilettante pretending to profess revolutionary sensibilities.

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He has been described as an archeological dilettante who liked to lecture his guests as they gazed at the pyramids.

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And so we dilettante cultural attachs set off to skirt our way around so much that really matters in peoples lives.

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Dilettante was a publishing house dedicated to challenging traditional notions of art and culture, focusing its efforts on featuring visionary, outsider, vernacular art in books.

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Fleck really offers no defense to the charge of being a musical dilettante, he simply celebrates the surface pleasures of different varieties of music, offering an overlapping series of appetizers.

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Dilettante verses by a clumsy author, a real dilettante, a coffeehouse poet.

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However, over time he is accepted as a harmless, if dilettante, member of the community.

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This sometimes requires him to appear as an aristocratic dilettante, naturally enough, but on other occasions he has impersonated a tradesman or a servant.

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