witling

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One Presidential pretender out to out-stump Tom Dewey and all the rest is the Surprise Party's nominee�Gracie Allen, witling half of the radio & cinema team of Burns & Allen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its title was "The End of the Comedy"; and a wretched witling pretended that the piece was ill-named, since the pit refused to see the end of the comedy.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 by Various

Show me a perfectly happy man, and I will show you an ignorant witling, light-headed, hardhearted, and of a most powerfully good digestion!

From Ardath by Corelli, Marie

A beau and witling perished in the throng,     One died in metaphor, and one in song.

From English Literature for Boys and Girls by Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth)

It was a tone of authority that the witling recognized, and it commanded his weak will and giant strength.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman