witlings造句

• As you might imagine, many people terms are simply nonce words or joculisms proffered by earlier generations of wits and witlings ( people who think they're funny but aren't ).
• The lines by Pope, though referring to Theobald, the hero of " The Dunciad ", are a characterisation of a Grub Street hack, a stereotype popular in the 1730s denoting a man of limited writing ability who lived in poverty but nevertheless determinedly pursued a career in literature;, Therefore, the particular scribbler depicted in the painting would be one of this fraternity of " witlings " who banded together to protest Pope's poem.