smatterer
Example Sentences
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But when a young smatterer uses them to advertise his calling acquaintance with a language, he is but proclaiming his own lack of good taste.
From English: Composition and Literature by W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
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
Don't spare study; if you will be a lawyer, become a good one, not a smatterer.
From Lewis Rand by Mary Johnston
Walpole described 'Mr. Fenn of East Dereham in Norfolk' as 'a smatterer in antiquity, but a very good sort of man.'
From George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends by Clement King Shorter
If the question were, What is the best mode of securing good government in Europe? the merest smatterer in politics would answer, representative institutions.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
