smatterer
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At this explanation she shook her head, and observed that no smatterer could read as I had done.
From The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett
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
But in geometry and rational arithmetic he is a smatterer, though expert at computation; at the board he is a trained man of business.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by David Eugene Smith
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
He was a smatterer of that most dangerous kind, who feel certain they have arrived at truth.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
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