numskull

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Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and, in large part, untrue.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even more startling is the picture that emerges of the Soviet police as either numskulls or brutes.

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At Columbia University he tutored campus numskulls, was a waiter, sold magazine subscriptions.

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Given Uma-like superpowers or even Condi-like earthly powers, women would not, surely, choose to waste them on bringing numskulls who look like Ben Stiller up to I'm-prepared-to-be-seen-out-with-you standard.

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"You take us for bedrock numskulls? Certain as eggs is eggs—you're the prince. The genuine, straight-up-and-down Royal Highness!"

From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman