smatterer
Example Sentences
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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
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 she's trivial, a smatterer, a decadent—" "And handsome," laughed Ballard.
From Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment by George Gibbs
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
Don't spare study; if you will be a lawyer, become a good one, not a smatterer.
From Lewis Rand by Mary Johnston
