smatterer
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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 Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
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
Don't spare study; if you will be a lawyer, become a good one, not a smatterer.
From Lewis Rand by Mary Johnston
"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
Walpole described 'Mr. Fenn of East Dereham in Norfolk' as 'a smatterer in antiquity, but a very good sort of man.'
From George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends by Clement King Shorter
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