dweeb

“He looked like a dweeb, for lack of a better word,” said Tony Annese, his first college head coach.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026

Co-written by Gilliam and Michael Palin, with appearances by Palin as a luckless dweeb through the ages and John Cleese as a posh Robin Hood, “Time Bandits,” the film, was very much a Python work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024

No one knows because he just comes off as such a dweeb, you know what I'm saying?

From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2023

“Hollywood refuses to write even one story about an actual company startup where the CEO isn’t a dweeb and/or evil,” Musk tweeted last year.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2023

Who would have thought that the equalizer would turn out to be the biggest dweeb in school?

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

Blue checks used to be a creative class status symbol, and now they’re for dweebs who pay for a free website.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2023

And sure enough, I led an undistinguished, mostly uneventful romantic life in New York City like thousands of other bespectacled media dweebs, tall and short.

From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2019

This time around, our hosts were two lovable dweebs with great pipes, Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles, opening the show on head-to-head grand pianos.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 11, 2018

Diggs’s roles aren’t irritatingly wholesome dweebs, or overly ambitious jerks, or capricious bad boys, but brothers who could wear Tommy Hilfiger while playing croquet and still look as if they were keeping it halfway real.

From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2015

If I stayed in the after-school rock band, it’d just be me and John playing “The Final Countdown” at the spring concert, with Mr. B playing drums, and we’d look like the world’s biggest dweebs.

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio