nitwit
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And I became a gunslinging nitwit in what was the last really crazy, silly stock market before the internet era.
From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025
“Some nitwit wants to know what I think of Cameroon going into the Southeastern Conference.”
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 28, 2020
In movies, Sandler has gone from playing nitwit kids to easily bruised, often overwhelmed dads in “The Week Of” and the “Hotel Transylvania” franchise.
From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2018
If KD wants to get into a back-and-forth with each nitwit, he’s free to do so.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 20, 2017
It was so deep it could have drawn water from a well, right up from beneath the floor of our nitwit household.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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