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

He can do anything, play anybody: a dimwit New York bartender, a Russian copper, a cruel, atavistic London gangster.

From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 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