smatterer
Example Sentences
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This law, abounding with contradictions which every smatterer in political philosophy can detect, did what a law framed by the utmost skill of the greatest masters of political philosophy might have failed to do.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
Now Chilperic must have learned to speak Latin like other kings of the Franks, and was a smatterer in several kinds of literature.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry
They sent everybody to school, and, though their educations were principally those of smatterers, it is an advantage to be even a smatterer among the very ignorant.
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore
Oh the chatterer, oh the flatterer, Oh the smatterer in science, To whom all things clear should be!
From Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden by Butterworth, Hezekiah
Too vast a subject, ma'am," he said, "for a smatterer like me.
From No Name by Collins, Wilkie
