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

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

Ed Asner played her boss, Lou Grant, who was gruff, though essentially tenderhearted; Gavin McLeod was Murray Slaughter, a news writer with a boring life; Ted Knight was the vain, dimwit anchorman, Ted Baxter.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2017

“Yes. In the cave,” Alexander said, kindly and a bit slowly, as if talking to a dimwit.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood