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

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

Woodrow Wilson, the erudite president of Princeton with a doctorate in political science, was followed into office by Warren Harding, who was just smart enough to know he was a dimwit.

From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 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