Meaning of Wiseling | Babel Free

Definitions

One who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre.

Equivalents

Examples

“This may well put to the blush those wiselings that show themselves fools in so speaking. ― Donne.”

“This is the book that makes fools of little wiselings.”

“What! a score o' wiselings, and not one to hit oot the means and the way?"”

“A wiseling keeps his real sentiments on this point to himself – guards them as his own life. The best mask for moral heresy is one of pretended sanctity.”

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