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
“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
I was a young knucklehead with a skinny brain.
From "Harbor Me" by Jacqueline Woodson
The knuckleheads causing civic havoc should be sentenced to root for the Brooklyn Nets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
A lot of passionate, maniacal and deeply invested knuckleheads, yes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2023
“It’s just the knuckleheads that can’t get on track. And they’re causing harm to everyone and making us look bad.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
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
Of all the too-cool knuckleheads running around this neighborhood, Jazz picked a good one, and I wanted to believe that was because she had a good example in me.
From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds
