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knucklehead

[nuhk-uhl-hed] / ˈnʌk əlˌhɛd /




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He has previously branded Powell a "knucklehead" and claimed he was "doing a lousy job" after his repeated calls for interest rate cuts were ignored.

From BBC Apr. 15, 2026

Ignore my 6-17 record in predicting Super Bowl winners, surely the worst of any knucklehead journalist who has consistently wasted entire workdays for more than two decades while writing 23 of these silly columns.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 11, 2023

"Civil rights can be violated and that person can still be a knucklehead, you know what I'm saying?"

From Salon Dec. 21, 2022

“If Twitter becomes the go-to platform for the knucklehead brigade, advertisers will run, not walk.”

From New York Times Oct. 28, 2022

I fixed that image of him in my mind—the smiling, glasses-wearing knucklehead who’d always had my back no matter what.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

The knuckleheads causing civic havoc should be sentenced to root for the Brooklyn Nets.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 14, 2026

When some within government are describing others within government to me as "knuckleheads", you can be confident there's lively debate internally about how to manage this.

From BBC May 16, 2022

“I work with teenagers all day, and I know what kind of knuckleheads they are,” Losavio said.

From Seattle Times Mar. 13, 2022

“But it’s a good community. … We just have some knuckleheads that make it bad for others.”

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 3, 2022

Of all the too-cool knuckleheads running around this neighborhood, Jazz picked a good one, and I wanted to believe that was because she had a good example in me.

From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds




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