smatterer
Example Sentences
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Walpole described “Mr. Fenn of East Dereham in Norfolk” as “a smatterer in antiquity, but a very good sort of man.”
From The Life of George Borrow by Clement K. Shorter
When yet if you consult historians, you'll find no princes more pestilent to the commonwealth than where the empire has fallen to some smatterer in philosophy or one given to letters.
From The Praise of Folly by John Wilson
Oh the chatterer, oh the flatterer, Oh the smatterer in science, To whom all things clear should be!
From Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden by Hezekiah Butterworth
Too vast a subject, ma'am," he said, "for a smatterer like me.
From No Name by Wilkie Collins
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
