knucklehead
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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
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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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