ditz

Example Sentences

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Grande has practiced doing this kind of lovable ditz since her teen years on Nickelodeon and I’m not sure if she can play any other kind of part.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025

Gilda Radner, a comic on “Saturday Night Live,” invented a new caricature: Baba Wawa, a funny-talking ditz.

From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2022

This time the ditz is Muriel Tate, a New Jersey woman who comes to the Plaza to see, for the first time in nearly 17 years, her high school boyfriend, Jesse Kiplinger.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2022

A “pathological liar” – of all the most comedically convenient psychiatric conditions – Portman’s Sam is a ditz on steroids, lurching from one quirky moment to another.

From The Guardian • Nov. 29, 2019

He gives amazing speeches, writes fantastic op-eds and now newspaper features, spearheads community warmth drives...and he dates a manipulative ditz.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen