Crossword-Solution: SMATTERER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Smatterer | n. | One who has only a slight, superficial knowledge; a sciolist. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “SMATTERER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| One with superficial knowledge | 1 answer |
| sciolist | 4 answers |
| ABECEDARIAN | 22 answers |
| Dabbler | 32 answers |
| Dilettante | 32 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SMATTERER (5)
Before these learned pundits, one member laid the following ingenious problem: “What would be the result of putting a pound of potassium in a pot of porter?” “I should think there would be a number of interesting bi-products,” said a smatterer at my elbow; but for me the tale itself has a bi-product, and stands as a type of much that is most human.
None of them contained any thing remarkable, so far as I, who was indeed a smatterer in geography, was able to perceive, till I came to the end, when I noticed a map, whose prototype I was wholly unacquainted with.
The idea of going out of their rural paradises to buy half-stale fruit! But this class is largely at the mercy of the "hired man," or his more disagreeable development, the pretentious smatterer, who, so far from possessing the knowledge that the English, Scotch, or German gardeners acquire in their long, thorough training, is a compound of ignorance and prejudice.
You develop matters of history every day that show plainly that you are no smatterer in it, content to nibble about the surface, but a man who has searched the depths and possessed yourself of everything that has a bearing upon the great question.
Whatever her tastes, she's no weakling." "But she's trivial, a smatterer, a decadent--" "And handsome," laughed Ballard.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2002).