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

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

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

Not only was he a dimwit, he was vulnerable.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam