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 Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

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

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

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)

"But she's trivial, a smatterer, a decadent—" "And handsome," laughed Ballard.

From Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment by Gibbs, George