simpleton
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He was a soldier simpleton who appeared in comic drawings about life in the army in the 1890s.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2024
And not in the simpleton type of way.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 26, 2023
In it a simpleton named Bobo, to amuse a princess, is sent to find impossible things: a white crow’s feather, a glass of dry water, a square wheel.
From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2021
A butcher and a simpleton climb a beanstalk to a giant and a hen that lays golden eggs.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2020
Most, he was beginning to dread the curtain that might waver in his brain, blacking out the sense of danger, making a simpleton of him.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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