dimwit

Example Sentences

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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

He can do anything, play anybody: a dimwit New York bartender, a Russian copper, a cruel, atavistic London gangster.

From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2017

She flirts with him; and the dimwit is smitten.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2015

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