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

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

While through the press enraged Thalestris flies, And scatters death around from both her eyes, A beau and witling perished in the throng, One died in metaphor, and one in song.

From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Pope, Alexander

Show me a perfectly happy man, and I will show you an ignorant witling, light-headed, hardhearted, and of a most powerfully good digestion!

From Ardath by Corelli, Marie

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

From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by Black, John