dilettantish

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"You are not one to talk about patriotism, and all that, but you can't hoodwink me with your dilettantish pose, Max, and I know that deep down in your nature there is a passionate devotion to your country—"
"Do what I say now, not what I do The dilettantish peekaboo"

Etymology tree English dilettante Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English dilettantish From dilettante + -ish.

more dilettantish (comparative) most dilettantish (superlative)

dilettantishly

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