witling
Example Sentences
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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 William Charles Henry Wood
It could not, with the witling in the play, cap verses with any man.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 by Various
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 Marie Corelli
Her age was the favorite theme of the callow witling, her cause a never-failing subject for reproach and abuse.
From The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper
It was a tone of authority that the witling recognized, and it commanded his weak will and giant strength.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day
