witling
Example Sentences
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If we reckon from the amœba, the witling seems scarcely distinguishable from the wit; but if we reckon from the average of humanity, they start asunder like the poles.
From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by William Benjamin Smith
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 Alexander Pope
The author was a learned witling, but in no respect a poet.
From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by John Black
The following will exemplify the active meaning of this verb: Sir Strut, for so the witling throng Oft called him when at school, And hitch'd him up in many a song To sport and ridicule.
From The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire by James Jennings
Alas, poor witling, and can't you see That for mighty thoughts and heroic aims, the words themselves must appropriate be?
From The Frogs by Aristophanes
