saphead

Example Sentences

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But Mr. Kellow is no saphead, and he makes objectivity a great virtue.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2011

This kind of pitch, with its view of the consumer as saphead, is still afl too prevalent.

From Time Magazine Archive

Well thought o’, Jeremiah Rooke; ye’ve hed a hard life o’t lately; but ye’ll be a fool ef ye don’t live eezier for the future, a darned greenhorn o’ a saphead!

From The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover by Reid, Mayne

And so he came to the saphead, and cautiously peered in.

From No Man's Land by McNeile, H. C. (Herman Cyril)

Then there's a man in the squad who is more than a mere saphead.

From Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)