saphead

Example Sentences

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But Mr. Kellow is no saphead, and he makes objectivity a great virtue.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2011

This kind of pitch, with its view of the consumer as saphead, is still afl too prevalent.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Hallie," said He, "if Billy only had your common-sense business instinct, I wouldn't ask for anything else in this world; but Billy is a saphead."

From The Early Bird A Business Man's Love Story by Brown, Arthur William

I bet I know what that saphead of an editor had to say without reading his letter.

From Molly Brown's Post-Graduate Days by Speed, Nell

Baines set him down as the sort of young man who would play Kelly pool with money his mother earned by doing laundry, and, in addition, catalogued him as a "saphead."

From Scattergood Baines by Kelland, Clarence Budington