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 then watched the knucklehead plow into a wall on the shoulder, bolt from the car, run through traffic and leap over the center divider.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2024
"Civil rights can be violated and that person can still be a knucklehead, you know what I'm saying?"
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2022
“If Twitter becomes the go-to platform for the knucklehead brigade, advertisers will run, not walk.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
“Yup, home,” I said, giving a little wave as the gate opened and thinking, God, you poor knucklehead, why didn’t anybody take care of you?
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
The knuckleheads causing civic havoc should be sentenced to root for the Brooklyn Nets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
I learned really quick that there’s a lot of knuckleheads out there.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 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
It is not hard to imagine, though, that any knuckleheads who were heretofore inclined to bite and punch fellow travelers to protest the mask mandate may not suddenly learn manners.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2022
“Yeah. Buellton and Brownley, really, but what kind of names are those for knuckleheads like them? Mom was going through some snobbish upper-class phase with husband number one.”
From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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