dimwit
Example Sentences
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Socrates-Plato-Xenophon: Remarkably, one of these chaps was the dimwit of the group.
From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2019
“Amadeus” serves Joseph no better than it does Salieri, portraying the ruler as a dithering dimwit.
From The New Yorker • May 27, 2019
What dimwit decided Arizona would be a great place to grow cotton?
From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2017
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
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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.