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

But dunce caps aside, the irony is that Xi’s critique of Big Tech is similar to recent debates in the United States.

From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2021

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

Does my deep engagement with the novel’s central character, Holly Sykes, make me a dunce or just gullible?

From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2020

A funnel of mosquitoes, like an inverted dunce cap, whined over her head.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy