smatterer

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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 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

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From George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends by Shorter, Clement King

Too vast a subject, ma'am," he said, "for a smatterer like me.

From No Name by Collins, Wilkie

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