dunce

Example Sentences

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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.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2024

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

Now he’s the guy who sat on that bar stool in Columbus, the bully who berated his kicker, the dunce who thought Andre Cisco was playing when he wasn’t.

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 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

Sammy plopped the dunce cap on top of his jockey cap.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan