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
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 Nell Speed
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 Clarence Budington Kelland
Twenty minutes afterwards the sergeant, crawling warily on his belly, approached a saphead and after a brief word or two dropped in.
From No Man's Land by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile
