simpleton

By the end, characters are either Team Anna, or they’re painted as shrews and simpletons.

Unless we are simpletons, we are all to some extent paradoxes, and Lopez was both an indefatigable traveler and, as writers must be, a monastic homebody.

To put it charitably, this is the jurisprudence of the simpleton.

George Lindsay played the lovable simpleton Goober Pyle on ‘The Andy Griffith Show.’

There's some vile plot laid against Howard, but if he doesn't come clean out of it with flying colors, call me a simpleton.

Then he pinched Betsy's ear in his usual familiar fashion, saying as he did so, "Saucy simpleton!"

Don't talk to me as if I were a simpleton—with your own false simplifications!

And you ought to have kept me from making such a simpleton of myself, Edward.

The credulous simpleton already saw himself beheaded and wept in anticipation over the fate of his family.