unintelligent
Example Sentences
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Popular culture has often depicted the dodo as clumsy and unintelligent, sometimes suggesting that its extinction was almost unavoidable.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
To be clear, this doesn’t mean coming across as unintelligent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Kilmer’s notion that only the unintelligent could perceive him as difficult is striking in that it’s almost remarkably self-aware.
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2025
Granted, he said his team did some “dumb” stuff and he criticized them for, “egregiously unintelligent fouls,” but his usual anger was mostly muted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2024
“You are, I gather, not unintelligent, but painfully limited. Narrow. Close-minded.”
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
