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knucklehead

[nuhk-uhl-hed] / ˈnʌk əlˌhɛd /




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"I will own up to being a knucklehead at times, but the folks closest to me know that I keep my word."

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2024

“I’m a knucklehead sometimes,” he said as he stumbled to explain his claim to being in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2024

“If Twitter becomes the go-to platform for the knucklehead brigade, advertisers will run, not walk.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

Devin Allen admits that he occasionally behaved like a knucklehead, growing up in Baltimore.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

That’s what happened to the stars, you knucklehead.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick

He has five close childhood friends he affectionately calls knuckleheads, although a couple are doctors and one is an atomic physicist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

When some within government are describing others within government to me as "knuckleheads", you can be confident there's lively debate internally about how to manage this.

From BBC ● May 16, 2022

“I work with teenagers all day, and I know what kind of knuckleheads they are,” Losavio said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2022

And then eventually they said it was no big deal, just a few knuckleheads who got out of hand.

From Salon ● Feb. 11, 2022

“Of course not, calabazas. You’re such knuckleheads sometimes,” I said, looking around and talking to all of them at once.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall




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