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

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

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

Sometimes he found me alone; when he did not he would sit stiffly in my desk chair and pretend, Henrylike, to examine my Greek books until even dimwit Tracy got the hint and left.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt