smatterer
Example Sentences
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Too vast a subject, ma'am," he said, "for a smatterer like me.
From No Name by Wilkie Collins
"But she's trivial, a smatterer, a decadent—" "And handsome," laughed Ballard.
From Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment by George Gibbs
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
But in geometry and rational arithmetic he is a smatterer, though expert at computation; at the board he is a trained man of business.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by David Eugene Smith
I remember, when I first saw thee, my mind laboured with a strong puzzle, whether I should put thee down for a great fool, or a smatterer in wit.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Samuel Richardson
