dunce
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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
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
Pena insists that his path to success, power, and money started in grammar school, when he was forced to wear a dunce hat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2021
Why fabricate a tale in which one comes off as a self-confessed dunce?
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
People who say L.A. has no seasons are unobservant dunces.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2021
The internet abets the problem, he says: Unfiltered by editors, it levels the playing field between experts and "dunces."
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 2, 2020
Where Shane Black’s The Nice Guys were bumbling dunces, McDonagh’s pair trade wisecracks peppered with esoteric references to everyone from Simone de Beauvoir to realist painter Andrew Wyeth.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 1, 2016
Later, in medieval England, people cracked jokes about the dunces who lived in the village of Gotham.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2014
“You are dunces, both of you, believing that rot,” I say.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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