dumb
Example Sentences
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Asked if they would be happy with a "brick" or "dumb" phone option, they all shake their heads.
From BBC
Graham took the floor late Friday morning, calling his critics “politically dumb as a rock.”
From Salon
On the upstairs landing we discover something called a dumbwaiter, which, upon inspection, is not dumb at all.
From Literature
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The dumbest criticism is that Mr. Warsh doesn’t have an economics Ph.D.
“And they laughed because: what’s this big dumb American doing here asking about asylum? And then they realised I was serious.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.