Crossword-Solution: DILETTANT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dilettant | a. | Of or pertaining to dilettanteism; amateur; as, dilettant speculation. |
| Dilettant | n. | A dilettante. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “DILETTANT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Connoisseur's antithesis: var. | 1 answer |
| Lover of the fine arts. | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DILETTANT (5)
For I?--what am I? A miserable bungler, a wretched dilettant--or have you another word for it? Oh, never mind--don't be afraid to say it!--I'm not sensitive tonight.
After sudden outbursts of genius and creativeness, he wanders away in the direction of license and egotism; the degenerate artist and thinker makes room for the sophist and the dilettant." THE POPES.--The Popes, _Nicholas V._ (1447-1455), a protector of scholars and a cultivated man, and _Pius II._ (1458-1464), THE OTTOMAN SULTANS.
The most oppressive Form of Cant Is that of your Art-Dilettant:-- Or rather "was." The Race, I own, To-day is, happily, unknown.
The connoisseur is "one who knows," as opposed to the dilettant, who only "thinks he knows." Fairholt.
After sudden outbursts of genius and creativeness he wanders away in the direction of license and egotism; the degenerate artist and thinker makes room for the sophist and the dilettant.
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1945–1997).