smatterer
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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
Don't spare study; if you will be a lawyer, become a good one, not a smatterer.
From Lewis Rand by Mary Johnston
To the philosophers at Athens he appears as the preacher of a new philosophy, and they think him a "smatterer" in such subjects.
From Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul by T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker
Coke commented upon them sentence by sentence, and even now the merest smatterer in English law must profess some knowledge of Quia emptores and De donis conditionalibus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
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 Henry Hallam
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