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dunce
noun as in stupid person
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He was slapped around by teachers who deemed him a complete dunce.
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The dunces who ran the party’s messaging on the economy were the problem.
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It’s about as academically relevant to today’s students as Sadie Hawkins Day, and as necessary as a dunce cap.
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If you do think that he could, please step forward and claim your complimentary dunce cap, and infuse it with your own naivete.
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Ironically, she was punished in school for not being able to keep quiet and put in a corner with a dunce cap on her head.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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