nitwit

Example Sentences

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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

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

You might recall that Shapovalov was the nitwit who managed to get himself defaulted from Canada’s Davis Cup tie against Great Britain in February when he accidentally struck a ball at the umpire.

From The Guardian • Sep. 1, 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