saphead

Example Sentences

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But Mr. Kellow is no saphead, and he makes objectivity a great virtue.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2011

This kind of pitch, with its view of the consumer as saphead, is still afl too prevalent.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then there's a man in the squad who is more than a mere saphead.

From Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)

He doesn't fancy Captain Billy Morgan, thinks him rather a saphead.

From Janet of the Dunes by Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)

Twenty minutes afterwards the sergeant, crawling warily on his belly, approached a saphead and after a brief word or two dropped in.

From No Man's Land by McNeile, H. C. (Herman Cyril)