dunce

Example Sentences

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If you do think that he could, please step forward and claim your complimentary dunce cap, and infuse it with your own naivete.

From Salon • May 5, 2023

Ironically, she was punished in school for not being able to keep quiet and put in a corner with a dunce cap on her head.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2023

Recall children in dunce caps, perjurers in pillories, adulterers branded with scarlet letters.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2022

In my view, the biggest mistake scientists make is to claim that this is all somehow simple and therefore to imply that anyone who doesn't get it is a dunce.

From Scientific American • Jul. 8, 2021

A morel resembles a tanned finger wearing a dark and deeply honeycombed dunce cap.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan