lunkhead

Example Sentences

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“Lucky there’s a family guy,” a chorus of friends, neighbors and relatives sing about the lunkhead Peter Griffin in the razzle-dazzle opening of each episode of “Family Guy” — more than 400 and counting.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2024

Detectives are stymied by bureaucrats and squabble with lunkhead patrol officers, who reliably contaminate crime scenes.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2022

Perrotta, who wrote the novel the series is based on as well as the pilot script, never specifies how Brendan becomes the lunkhead that he is.

From Salon • Oct. 27, 2019

Not So Proud Papa Our son is an unmotivated lunkhead.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2012

I was a great big, strong, clumsy lunkhead, an' the only thing I could do, even in a one-horse college, was to play base ball, so they kep' me along jest for that.

From Mother Carey's Chickens by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith