nitwit

Example Sentences

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And I became a gunslinging nitwit in what was the last really crazy, silly stock market before the internet era.

From Barron's • Dec. 31, 2025

“Some nitwit wants to know what I think of Cameroon going into the Southeastern Conference.”

From Golf Digest • Apr. 28, 2020

If KD wants to get into a back-and-forth with each nitwit, he’s free to do so.

From Washington Times • Sep. 20, 2017

He does this because he’s a cutting-edge multimedia artist and not, as you think, a self-indulgent nitwit vastly overcompensating for those three Transformers films he made.

From The Guardian • Apr. 13, 2017

“Sure, but that’s not the point. We can’t let him continue this nitwit stuff about the Master.”

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov