dimwit
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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
The brothers had a well-defined musical-comedy stage act in which Tom, on guitar, played a dimwit, and Dick, on bass, was the straight man.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 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
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