smatter's Usage Examples:

The kings choice, however, fell on Hajji Mirza Aghasi, a native of Erivan, who in former years, as tutor to the Sons of Abbas Mirza, had gained a certain reputation for learning and a smattering of the occult sciences, but whose qualifications for statesmanship were craftiness and suspicion.

They write shorthand, but speak no English; they have a smattering of higher mathematics, yet are ignorant of book-keeping.

There 's a little vaudeville in there, smatterings of jazz, and a healthy dose of snotty punk.

conger (eel)e winter there is a decent smattering of fish, including conger, ling, bib and pollack.

Here congregated hundreds of the younger szlachta, fresh from their school benches, whence they brought nothing but a smattering of Latin and a determination to make their way by absolute subservience to their "elder brethren," the pans.

At odd hours of lessons she picked up a smattering of Latin, music and natural science, but most days were holidays and spent in country rambles and games with village children.

He spoke a smattering of words she didn't understand.

The triangle top ties around her neck and features a smattering of rhinestones, while the bikini bottom, complete with side ties, sits low on the hips and also sports a set of rhinestones along the waistband of the swim bottom.

The Pimas and Papagoes were early converted by the Spaniards, and retain to-day a smattering of Christianity plentifully alloyed with paganism.

There are very few shopping locales without a healthy smattering of mobile phone emporia.

Again, it is generally recognized to be undesirable to give marks for a smattering.

His father, who was a wealthy man and possessed at any rate a smattering of Greek, Latin and French, was thought to have demeaned himself by marrying the daughter of an Andover tradesman, who afterwards retired to a country house near Reading, where young Jeremy spent many happy days.

The #blacklivesmatter movement was born as a catharsis of sorts.

Synonyms:

busy, play around, occupy, dabble,

Antonyms:

inactive, bore, defend, whisper, shout,