dullard

Casting a few dullards is an essential part of the process.

Epstein said that his "closest friend for 10 years" had a great mind for real estate, but was otherwise a complete dullard.

We have an insipid media landscape riddled with dullards, idiots, partisans and clowns.

She wears her power like a second skin and speaks a mid-Atlantic accent similar to the one Leigh used in “The Hudsucker Proxy,” only mellowed by casks of rare scotch and impatience with unrefined dullards.

They must get struck, bent, broken and shoved into the flames to mold the boy into a man, the dullard into a dagger.