knucklehead

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He has previously branded Powell a "knucklehead" and claimed he was "doing a lousy job" after his repeated calls for interest rate cuts were ignored.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

“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

Ignore my 6-17 record in predicting Super Bowl winners, surely the worst of any knucklehead journalist who has consistently wasted entire workdays for more than two decades while writing 23 of these silly columns.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2023

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

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2022

In close quarters he suffered their backwoods lubricity and knucklehead talk.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides