dimwit

Example Sentences

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“Amadeus” serves Joseph no better than it does Salieri, portraying the ruler as a dithering dimwit.

From The New Yorker • May 27, 2019

He can do anything, play anybody: a dimwit New York bartender, a Russian copper, a cruel, atavistic London gangster.

From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2017

Woodrow Wilson, the erudite president of Princeton with a doctorate in political science, was followed into office by Warren Harding, who was just smart enough to know he was a dimwit.

From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2017

She flirts with him; and the dimwit is smitten.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2015

Why, if I had a penny for each person what axed me if you was a dimwit, I’d be rich as George Washington!

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis