dimwit

Example Sentences

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She had a Twitter tiff with the former president’s son last September; after Donald Trump Jr. made an online comment about Navarro’s weight, she called him a dimwit.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2022

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

From The New Yorker • May 27, 2019

What dimwit decided Arizona would be a great place to grow cotton?

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2017

Hours of enquiry yielded a solitary rumour: the girls were at a party and the love of my life was seeing a local quarry-faced dimwit called Siz.

From The Guardian • Feb. 11, 2017

The tears starts fighting their way back in my eyes, but I wasn’t ’bout to let the dimwit and them other men see me cry.

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