Smatterers

Word SMATTERERS
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What do we mean by smatterers?

One who smatters; one who dabbles in or experiments with a little bit of everything, especially knowledge.

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The word "smatterers" in example sentences

Alexander Solzhenitsyn called such people "smatterers" (although he was referring to the debased intelligentsia that pimped for the Soviet state) ❋ Unknown (2007)

Our early love of roguery makes us generally run away from instruction; and so we become mere smatterers in the sciences we are put to learn; and, because we will know no more, think there is no more to be known. ❋ Unknown (2006)

When reached in his London office, Newton declined to comment, saying only that he had "no use for little smatterers in mathematics." ❋ Unknown (2005)

Not any of them make greater account of those smatterers at Greek than if they were daws. ❋ C. 1466-1536 (1958)

But the following snatch from _Yes and No_ proves that these smatterers of fashion -- these clippers of reputation -- are encouraged by some portion of that class whose vanities they affect to expose: -- ❋ Various (N/A)

It is remarkable that his lordship's family have been smatterers in wit and learning for three generations: his grandfather has left monuments of his good taste in several rhyming tragedies, and the romance of Parthenissa. ❋ Melville, Lewis (1925)

The difficulty is to keep your place when you get old and stiff, and younger smatterers are pushing up behind you. ❋ Unknown (1924)

Hence in no country were there so many orators, or so many smatterers. ❋ Unknown (1924)

This, he considered, was the only basis of solid instruction; all other means of education were mere charlatanism, and could produce nothing better than smatterers. ❋ Unknown (1917)

The beginners and the smatterers are always "students of nature," and suppose that to be so will suffice; but when the understanding and imagination gain width and elasticity, life is more and more understood as a long struggle to overcome or humanise nature by that which most essentially distinguishes man from other animals and inanimate nature. ❋ T. Sturge Moore (1907)

He states that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law; and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions. ❋ Unknown (1906)

On the contrary, most of the smatterers in criticism, who appear among us, make it their business to vilify and depreciate every new production that gains applause, to descry imaginary blemishes, and to prove, by farfetched arguments, that what pass for beauties in any celebrated piece are faults and errors. ❋ Edward Robins (1902)

The perils of this age come not from scholars, but from smatterers; not from those who know much, but from those who think they "know it all." ❋ Francis Greenwood Peabody (1891)

His minor poems, though not a few of them are known even to smatterers in literature, are as a whole (or at least it would seem so) unknown. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

One morning Adelaide, in graceful ease in her favorite nook in the small northwest portico of the club house, was reading a most imposingly bound and illustrated work on Italian architecture written by a smatterer for smatterers. ❋ David Graham Phillips (1889)

We want good workmen and good scholars, not deluded smatterers in either department. ❋ Unknown (1887)

This interpretation is so manifest, that, could science sneer, we might laugh at the hazardous conjectures of smatterers. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

One of the greatest sages of antiquity is reported to have said that all the knowledge he had acquired merely taught him how little he did know; and indeed it is only smatterers who are vain of their supposed knowledge. ❋ William Alexander Clouston (1869)

If Christian healing is abused by mere smatterers in Science, it becomes a tedious mischief-maker. ❋ Mary Baker Eddy (1865)

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