bonehead

Example Sentences

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With airplanes frequently short-staffed, some passengers have jumped into the fray to help attendants, even aiding with the duct tape or zip ties — tools that were once reserved for dangerous hijackers, not mask-rejecting boneheads.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2021

For Pete’s sake, what are these boneheads doing at practice?

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2019

Given how horribly everything else seems to be going, we could all probably benefit from following his example and enjoying a few deep belly laughs at the expense of these pyromaniac boneheads:

From Slate • Sep. 5, 2018

But Mr Musk would get some respite from bores and boneheads.

From Economist • May 24, 2018

Now you’d hardly believe the work I’ve had to show that lot of boneheads that because a guy’s a detective in one line, he ain’t a detective in every line.

From The Dust Flower by Kline, Hibberd V. B. (Hibberd Van Buren)