smatterer

Example Sentences

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He will not have us mere theorists or smatterers; He will keep us, if need be, year after year at our scales until we learn to sing.—C.

From Thoughts for the Quiet Hour by Various

"We have smatterers and sciolists in abundance," say they, "but where are the giant scholars of other days?"

From Gifts of Genius A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors by Various

This was no evil, if true; but who can calculate the direness of that calamity which shall turn us into a nation of smatterers.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by

Many smatterers in science object to the credibility of the gospel history on the same ground, and are answered in the same way.

From Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story by Barker, Joseph

He says that they render smatterers conceited, and confer the superficial glitter of knowledge instead of its substance.

From Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches by Anonymous