dunce

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

A guy in a dunce cap is lying on the couch, troubled.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 10, 2020

The high hairdo towered over her thin face like dunce cap, the white-blond hair utterly incongruous with her olive skin.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

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

That luck is a hugely underestimated factor in football and post-game analysis is often harshly binary with winning coaches tactical geniuses and losers dunces when, in reality, things could easily have gone either way.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 5, 2018

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