smatterer
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Too vast a subject, ma'am," he said, "for a smatterer like me.
From No Name by Wilkie Collins
When yet if you consult historians, you'll find no princes more pestilent to the commonwealth than where the empire has fallen to some smatterer in philosophy or one given to letters.
From The Praise of Folly by John Wilson
"But she's trivial, a smatterer, a decadent—" "And handsome," laughed Ballard.
From Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment by George Gibbs
Don't spare study; if you will be a lawyer, become a good one, not a smatterer.
From Lewis Rand by Mary Johnston
The veriest smatterer in political economy cannot but perceive the ruinous tendency of such a measure.
From Thoughts on African Colonization by William Lloyd Garrison
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