Crossword-Solution: DILETTANTISH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dilettantish | a. | Dilettanteish. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “DILETTANTISH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| somewhat like a dilettante | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
REAA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with DILETTANTISH (4)
There were several dozen contenders in the contest, some quite accomplished archers, some more or less dilettantish, and quite a few whose skills put the spectators at random hazard.
The German pianist had found his music harsh and dilettantish in modulation, but Chopin's originality of performance--"he glides lightly over the keys in a fairy-like way with his delicate fingers"--quite reconciled the elder man to this strange music.
The would-be essayist wastes it in pretty writing about trivial things--neighbors' back yards, books I have read, the idiosyncrasies of cats, humors of the streets--the sort of dilettantish comment that older nations writing of more settled, richer civilizations can do well--that Anatole France and occasional essayists of _Punch_ or _The Spectator_ can do well and most of us do indifferently.
For the great value of Browning is that at bottom, in all the deep spiritual and human essentials, he is unmistakably in the great tradition—is, with all his Italianisms and cosmopolitanisms, all his victimisation by societies organised to talk about him, a magnificent example of the best and least dilettantish English spirit.