dweeb
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“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
The main character of “The First Shadow” is Henry Creel, an adolescent dweeb who looks like Pee-wee Herman but has a malevolent side that could give Carrie a run for her prom night money.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2025
“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
This is one of the reasons Devi pictures Des as a dweeb before they meet in person.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2022
Even if I looked like a total dweeb at the spring concert, I couldn’t let John down like that.
From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio
It would be easier to believe if he hadn’t littered every song with claims that his enemies were omnipresent and all-powerful, while also being sniveling dweebs.
From Salon ● May 21, 2026
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
To the dominant culture, they were dweebs, then Satanists, then back to dweebs.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
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
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
