dunce

If you do think that he could, please step forward and claim your complimentary dunce cap, and infuse it with your own naivete.

From Salon ● May 5, 2023

But dunce caps aside, the irony is that Xi’s critique of Big Tech is similar to recent debates in the United States.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2021

In my view, the biggest mistake scientists make is to claim that this is all somehow simple and therefore to imply that anyone who doesn't get it is a dunce.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 8, 2021

Does my deep engagement with the novel’s central character, Holly Sykes, make me a dunce or just gullible?

From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2020

She claimed that he had only been pretending about his religious feelings—as was shown by his immediately going off with Elaine when he had the dunce.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

You there, yes you, the one sitting in seat 11E; you’re no better than the doomed dunces coming to see this production of “Fossil Fools.”

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

People who say L.A. has no seasons are unobservant dunces.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2021

The internet abets the problem, he says: Unfiltered by editors, it levels the playing field between experts and "dunces."

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 2, 2020

The appeal of getting to play one of Sandler’s dunces was so great that it attracted former cast members Jimmy Fallon and Kristen Wiig, neither of whose time on the show overlapped with Sandler’s:

From Slate ● May 5, 2019

“Okay, then, us two dunces are going to find a way out of this place.”

From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech