dweeb

This moment’s dilithium crystal is recursive self-improvement, used already in the lab to develop the next models, doing double duty to turn today’s tech dweeb, very pleasurably, into a high priest of the Eschaton.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

The main character of “The First Shadow” is Henry Creel, an adolescent dweeb who looks like Pee-wee Herman but has a malevolent side that could give Carrie a run for her prom night money.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2025

No one knows because he just comes off as such a dweeb, you know what I'm saying?

From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2023

“Hollywood refuses to write even one story about an actual company startup where the CEO isn’t a dweeb and/or evil,” Musk tweeted last year.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2023

“No autographs, girls. I know you want some Leo time, but I’m way too cool. You better just hang around that ugly dweeb Narcissus. He’s lame!”

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

And sure enough, I led an undistinguished, mostly uneventful romantic life in New York City like thousands of other bespectacled media dweebs, tall and short.

From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2019

This time around, our hosts were two lovable dweebs with great pipes, Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles, opening the show on head-to-head grand pianos.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 11, 2018

Diggs’s roles aren’t irritatingly wholesome dweebs, or overly ambitious jerks, or capricious bad boys, but brothers who could wear Tommy Hilfiger while playing croquet and still look as if they were keeping it halfway real.

From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2015

Today, movies about vaguely heroic computer dweebs get nominated for Golden Globes.

From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2010

If I stayed in the after-school rock band, it’d just be me and John playing “The Final Countdown” at the spring concert, with Mr. B playing drums, and we’d look like the world’s biggest dweebs.

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio