dilettantely
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In the manner of a dilettante.
Example Sentences
- "The meal was a silent one, neither eating, but dilettantely sipping the tea, and shortly both arose."
- "It was played with moderate success 20 years ago by Edwin Booth, although presented dilettantely off and on many years preceding."
- "For four generations the men had been educated to a profession which was more or less dilettantely pursued, while a sufficient income from herds and horses made life a series of gracious gestures."
- "I must dilettantely raise the curtain."
- "“I am living a very full life, but doing everything rather dilettantely,” he told himself at year’s end."
- "Typical examples are the attitudes of the so-called Green Party and thic several Environmental Groups and other similar groups who, all dilettantely in a façade protest, humiliated nature in Lambach Au shamefully."
Etymology
From dilettante + -ly.