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Witling   Listen
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Witling  n.  A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness. "A beau and witing perished in the forming." "Ye newspaper witlings! ye pert scribbling folks!"






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Witling" Quotes from Famous Books



... mantles, and the rest of the apparel stowed in their own places; the coverlets and bedding; the copper cauldrons; and all the articles for table use! Nay, though it well may raise a smile of ridicule (not on the lips of a grave man perhaps, but of some facetious witling) to hear me say it, a beauty like the cadence of sweet music [36] dwells even in pots and pans set out in neat array: and so, in general, fair things ever show more fair when orderly bestowed. The separate atoms shape themselves to form a choir, and ...
— The Economist • Xenophon



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