smatterer

Example Sentences

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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 Parton, James

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 Smollett, T. (Tobias)

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 Cooper, James Fenimore

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 Butterworth, Hezekiah

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