dimwit

Example Sentences

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“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

To which a dimwit pirate replies: “At the tip of your finger?”

From Washington Post • May 25, 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

Why, if I had a penny for each person what axed me if you was a dimwit, I’d be rich as George Washington!

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