smattering

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You wouldn't really refer to an undead Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop; it's more of an undead smattering, and the game is inferior for it.

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  1. noun Superficial or piecemeal knowledge: "a smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing” (Charles Dickens).
  2. noun A small, scattered amount or number: a smattering of raindrops.

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  • With a glance at Nara, he declared that his object in trying to pick up a smattering was purely social NARA was frankly modern and cosmopolitan. —  Astounding Stories June, 1935
  • You wouldn't really refer to an undead Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop; it's more of an undead smattering, and the game is inferior for it. —  Latest from PALGN
  • Vendrell's audience included dozens of security and foreign policy specialists, as well as a smattering of American military officers and some government ministers, including Hoshyar Zebari, the Iraqi foreign minister. —  dailyindia.com News Feed
  • If it wasn't for a smattering of wheezy old monastics there wouldn't have been an intellectual tradition in the west. —  Tyee - Home
  • -- Admission: Except for a smattering of free screenings, films that screen before 6 p.m. —  California Chronicle
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