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71Wiggins v. Smith — Infobox SCOTUS case Litigants = Wiggins v. Smith ArgueDate = March 24 ArgueYear = 2003 DecideDate = June 26 DecideYear = 2003 FullName = Kevin Wiggins, Petitioner v. Sewall Smith, Warden, et al. USVol = 539 USPage = 510 OralArgument =… …
72nodding acquaintance — 1. a slight, incomplete, or superficial knowledge (of something or someone): He had only a nodding acquaintance with Italian and didn t trust it to get him through the tour. Although we were neighbors for several years, we had only a nodding… …
73sciolism — sciolist, n. sciolistic, adj. /suy euh liz euhm/, n. superficial knowledge. [1810 20; < LL sciol(us) one who knows little (dim. of scius knowing; see CONSCIOUS, OLE1) + ISM] * * * …
74sciolist — noun /ˈsaɪəlɪst/ One who exhibits only superficial knowledge; a self proclaimed expert with little real understanding. Syn: factotum, handyman, jack of all trades …
75smatter — verb a) To talk superficially; to babble. b) To speak (a language) with spotty or superficial knowledge; as, to smatter Arabic …
76Clarence Senior — Clarence O. Senior, 1936 Socialist Party portrait. Clarence Ollson Senior (1903–1974) was, as a young man, an American socialist political activist best remembered as the National Executive Secretary of the Socialist Party of America during the… …
77smattering — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. superficiality, sciolism. See ignorance. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. superficial knowledge, some half truths, smatter; see introduction 3 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. small amount, slight amount,… …
78Malapropism — This word entered the English language through the name of a character in The Rivals (1775), a play written by Englishman Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 1816). The play introduced Mrs. Malaprop, an endearing late middle age woman given to… …
79smatter — early 15c., talk idly, chatter, perhaps imitative. Similar forms are found in M.H.G. smetern to chatter and Swed. smattra to patter, rattle. Smatterer one who has superficial knowledge is attested from 1510s …
80by sight — according to a superficial knowledge, according to a first impression …
