dingbat

Example Sentences

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So he just moved one rung lower, at the behest of a dingbat from the internet.

From Slate • Apr. 5, 2025

“It’s been my home for 40 years,” said Cathy Livas, 77, who pays $824 a month to live in a dingbat unit with her 56-year-old son with special needs.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2023

Coco Jones makes the most of remaking Hilary as an upbeat self-assured culinary influencer instead of a dingbat, while Akira Jolie Akbar channels Ashley's essential lovability.

From Salon • Feb. 13, 2022

She achieved a reluctant fame from the air disaster, thanks to a cheesy Italian biopic in 1974, “Miracles Still Happen,” in which the teenage Dr. Diller is portrayed as a hysterical dingbat.

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2021

The hootin'-annie appeared to be the thing that went wrong, while the dingbat was the thing the hootin'-annie was attached to.

From Casey Ryan by Bower, B. M.