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

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 Day, Holman

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

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

From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by Black, John

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