simpleton

Example Sentences

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And not in the simpleton type of way.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 26, 2023

Turning what could have been merely a simpleton into a lost soul, Keoghan’s work here is vivid and heartbreaking.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2022

Like Gump, a good-hearted simpleton, who travels through milestones in US history - the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal - Chaddha's life takes him through the cultural and political turnpikes of 20th-Century India.

From BBC • Aug. 9, 2022

In it a simpleton named Bobo, to amuse a princess, is sent to find impossible things: a white crow’s feather, a glass of dry water, a square wheel.

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2021

“Then she is a greater simpleton than I ever believed her. What is the foolish girl about?”

From "Emma" by Jane Austen