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
Socrates-Plato-Xenophon: Remarkably, one of these chaps was the dimwit of the group.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2019
“Amadeus” serves Joseph no better than it does Salieri, portraying the ruler as a dithering dimwit.
From The New Yorker ● May 27, 2019
Mr. Leguizamo’s dimwit stance is unsustainable, in part because much of the history, despite the show’s premise, is actually quite familiar.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2017
Petey the dimwit was one of ’em and he was holting on to the reins of a old riderless mare.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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