dunce

Example Sentences

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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.

From Salon • May 5, 2023

Recall children in dunce caps, perjurers in pillories, adulterers branded with scarlet letters.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2022

No word on whether a dunce cap has been issued.

From Washington Post • Jul. 11, 2021

In my view, the biggest mistake scientists make is to claim that this is all somehow simple and therefore to imply that anyone who doesn't get it is a dunce.

From Scientific American • Jul. 8, 2021

Instead, Fake Leo put the top of the dunce cap to his mouth like a megaphone and yelled, “CUT!”

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan