smattering
IPA: smˈætɝɪŋ
noun
- A superficial or shallow knowledge of a subject.
- A small number or amount of something.
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Examples of "smattering" in Sentences
- No one knew that he was smattering.
- The entries were a smattering of both.
- There's a smattering of mentions in Google.
- There's a smattering mentions in the article.
- Hope this smattering of words is helpful to you.
- "A smattering," is how Barry described the warm reception.
- There is also a smattering of small offices and apartments.
- Thanks to my Nyonya maternal grandmother, I speak a smattering of Malay.
- As an international businessman, I speak a smattering of languages, including Arabic.
- The majority of them, however, were content with what I have just called a smattering of education.
- Gayatri proved to be an able companion through the years -- even picking up Tamil (Prahalad could speak a smattering of Gujarati).
- Indians -- who could speak a smattering of English -- that he might be bound and remain, or accompany them to see the Big Knife tortured.
- Like many Arabs, he can speak a smattering, and a very fair one, of three or four languages, but he can't write a line in any one of them.
- I used to be semi-fluent in Japanese and I could speak a smattering of Mandarin enough to order in a restaurant and get on and off the bus in the right spots.
- They have learnt from long experience that the Brits are not always natural linguists, and so to speak a smattering of our language is a shrewd move on their part.
- But the absence of the smattering is a much more dangerous and fatal thing if the man wishes to do business with the Argentine and the Transvaal, or to enter into practical relations of any sort with anybody outside his own parish.
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