dumb
Example Sentences
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“This is a really dumb analogy, and it was kind of a joke at a certain point, but I actually mean it. Did you see that movie ‘The Gorge’?”
From MarketWatch
Without those tools or billions to manage, individual investors, derided by Wall Street as the “dumb money,” had to rely more on gut instinct and emotion.
In a bit of dumb luck that hasn’t stopped me from bragging about it since, 10 years ago I was the first one to publicly push for Roberts’ hiring.
From Los Angeles Times
With the braggadocio of youth, I was probably too dumb to be scared.
From Los Angeles Times
“The Sun is an enormous, free fusion reactor in the sky. It is super dumb to make tiny fusion reactors on Earth.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.