lunkhead

Example Sentences

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You learn to follow the plot not just through the names but also the faces of various low-level thugs and lunkheads, vividly played by actors including Scott Shepherd, Louis Cancelmi, Tommy Schultz and Sturgill Simpson.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2023

I’m actually invested in the day-to-day fortunes of 25 lunkheads I never heard of until two weeks ago.

From Washington Post • Jun. 22, 2018

After all, 23 lunkheads left Willie Mays off their ballot.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2013

“About time one of you lunkheads remembered we were in there,” grumbled Scruffy.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

“I know one schoolmaster,” he said, “who is an honest man and always was, though thieving must be more fun than trying to teach some o’ the lunkheads who go to his school.”

From Rodney, the Ranger With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield by Goss, John