dimwit
Example Sentences
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She had a Twitter tiff with Donald Trump Jr. last September; after he made an online comment about Navarro’s weight, she called him a dimwit.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
“Amadeus” serves Joseph no better than it does Salieri, portraying the ruler as a dithering dimwit.
From The New Yorker ● May 27, 2019
Woodrow Wilson, the erudite president of Princeton with a doctorate in political science, was followed into office by Warren Harding, who was just smart enough to know he was a dimwit.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2017
Hours of enquiry yielded a solitary rumour: the girls were at a party and the love of my life was seeing a local quarry-faced dimwit called Siz.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2017
Petey the dimwit was one of ’em and he was holting on to the reins of a old riderless mare.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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