witling

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One Presidential pretender out to out-stump Tom Dewey and all the rest is the Surprise Party's nominee�Gracie Allen, witling half of the radio & cinema team of Burns & Allen.

From Time Magazine Archive

A beau and witling perished in the throng,     One died in metaphor, and one in song.

From English Literature for Boys and Girls by Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth)

The author was a learned witling, but in no respect a poet.

From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by Black, John

Its title was "The End of the Comedy"; and a wretched witling pretended that the piece was ill-named, since the pit refused to see the end of the comedy.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 by Various

The point of the witling joke against La Salle was a new version of the old adage: Go farther and fare worse.

From Elizabethan Sea Dogs by Wood, William Charles Henry