smatterer
Example Sentences
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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 James Fenimore Cooper
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
In history he was the merest smatterer, though it was his favorite reading, and he was always talking about Sparta, Athens, and Rome.
From Famous Americans of Recent Times by James Parton
But when a young smatterer uses them to advertise his calling acquaintance with a language, he is but proclaiming his own lack of good taste.
From English: Composition and Literature by W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
I remember, when I first saw thee, my mind laboured with a strong puzzle, whether I should put thee down for a great fool, or a smatterer in wit.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Samuel Richardson
