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

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

A guy in a dunce cap is lying on the couch, troubled.

From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2020

Does my deep engagement with the novel’s central character, Holly Sykes, make me a dunce or just gullible?

From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2020

“Now, from the top!” he yelled into his dunce cap.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan