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dimwit

[dim-wit] / ˈdɪmˌwɪt /


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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

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

But this book’s Raymer is enough of a dimwit that he might have presented Mr. Hoffman with quite a challenge.

From New York Times May 4, 2016

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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