dilettanteishly

Adverb

dilettantishly (comparative more dilettantishly, superlative most dilettantishly)

1. In a dilettantish manner.
   • Horace Walpole dilettantishly, Sir Joshua Reynolds professionally, Blake prophetically, Gilpin in the manner (not the bad manner) of the gifted amateur, and devoting himself chiefly to “the picturesque” in nature, had occupied themselves with it in the eighteenth.1907, George Saintsbury, “English and French—Periodical Literature—Criticism and Essay-Writing”, in The Later Nineteenth Century (Periods of European Literature; volume XII), Edinburgh; London...