dunce

Example Sentences

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It’s about as academically relevant to today’s students as Sadie Hawkins Day, and as necessary as a dunce cap.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2024

If you do think that he could, please step forward and claim your complimentary dunce cap, and infuse it with your own naivete.

From Salon • May 5, 2023

No word on whether a dunce cap has been issued.

From Washington Post • Jul. 11, 2021

In my view, the biggest mistake scientists make is to claim that this is all somehow simple and therefore to imply that anyone who doesn't get it is a dunce.

From Scientific American • Jul. 8, 2021

There’s a head wearing a dunce hat and “Ally” is written underneath.

From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt