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

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

Mr. Leguizamo’s dimwit stance is unsustainable, in part because much of the history, despite the show’s premise, is actually quite familiar.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 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