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simpleton

[sim-puhl-tuhn] / ˈsɪm pəl tən /


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And not in the simpleton type of way.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 26, 2023

“Laal Singh Chaddha” offers up a fresh look: a luxuriantly produced Indian adaptation that doubles down on the story’s simpleton hero, with new historical touchstones.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 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

He may have been seen as a visionary by a few, but many more dismissed him as a simpleton.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2020

The king's own fool, the pie-faced simpleton called Moon Boy, danced about on stilts, all in motley, making mock of everyone with such deft cruelty that Sansa wondered if he was simple after all.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin




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