knucklehead
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"I will own up to being a knucklehead at times, but the folks closest to me know that I keep my word."
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2024
“I’m a knucklehead sometimes,” he said as he stumbled to explain his claim to being in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2024
These are the same owners who signed notorious knucklehead Trevor Bauer because he agreed to a bargain deal.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2023
“If Twitter becomes the go-to platform for the knucklehead brigade, advertisers will run, not walk.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
"You ain't that fine if my knucklehead brother-in-law had to pick me up."
From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds
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The knuckleheads causing civic havoc should be sentenced to root for the Brooklyn Nets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
They espouse pithy jokes and playful warnings, like, “To all you knuckleheads, do not talk to me while I’m cooking,” and, “Your portion depends on your attitude, I mean it!”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
When some within government are describing others within government to me as "knuckleheads", you can be confident there's lively debate internally about how to manage this.
From BBC ● May 16, 2022
And then eventually they said it was no big deal, just a few knuckleheads who got out of hand.
From Salon ● Feb. 11, 2022
“The courageous Lion can’t let you knuckleheads go out there alone.”
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
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