Dilettantish

After the Stuttgart match, Veh termed his team's defensive performance "dilettantish," adding to reporters that "the number of goals we let in is deadly for a coach." ❋ Unknown (2010)

But for him, music is more than a dilettantish diversion. ❋ Jason Gay (2011)

This trend is common among today's dilettantish new generation of "urban exploration photographers," who display photographs of buildings - or even sets of photos from various buildings - under false names, with either absent or misleading contextual information. ❋ Ian Ference (2011)

As good as those might seem in theory at least to some people, coming from Mr. Thaksin the ideas are gimmicky, dilettantish and often cynical. ❋ Michael Montesano (2011)

And in itself it's part of the American heritage, something that echoes with Jefferson's always ambivalent and frequently dilettantish attitude toward political violence. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This job has been characterized by some as a dilettantish distraction, but those close to the fighter describe him as genuinely torn between the ring and politics. ❋ Jason Gay (2010)

India cheered, genuinely pleased that her dilettantish friend was putting her intelligence to use. ❋ Susan Fales-Hill (2010)

While zipping up, he reassured himself that the mediocre painting in the bathroom had been the product of one of her dilettantish explorations. ❋ Rafael Yglesias (2009)

She made writing seem so airy and dilettantish that her subsequent novels, though many of them successes in Europe, never earned her the literary respect they deserved. ❋ Wolcott, James, 1952- (2009)

In the second half, beginning in 1997, I was grieving the bounty -- so skewed, so dilettantish -- that I prayed for the lean years to return. ❋ Unknown (2009)