dunce
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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
A morel resembles a tanned finger wearing a dark and deeply honeycombed dunce cap.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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