dimwit

Example Sentences

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She had a Twitter tiff with the former president’s son last September; after Donald Trump Jr. 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

To which a dimwit pirate replies: “At the tip of your finger?”

From Washington Post • May 25, 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

“Or perhaps I will mumble my way through my interview like a dimwit and be sent home again in shame,” she fretted.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood