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lunkhead

noun as in chump

noun as in dullard

noun as in screwball

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For a performer who confessed that he thinks in show tunes, he certainly knows how to bewitch an audience with musical theater classics retooled to put lunkhead politicians with malicious agendas in their place.

Babbitt was a victim of the rabbit hole, he says — and her husband, Aaron, was an apolitical “lunkhead” before grief fueled his evolution into “a very sad character” co-opted by the extreme right wing.

“About time one of you lunkheads remembered we were in there,” grumbled Scruffy.

That said, it takes a while for Bullock and Tatum to find their groove, in part because he isn’t as comfortable in his lunkhead role as he needs to be.

Detectives are stymied by bureaucrats and squabble with lunkhead patrol officers, who reliably contaminate crime scenes.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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