simpleton

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Adam Hugill is similarly amusing as the defender Harry Maguire, who is portrayed as a lovable simpleton — not the sharpest tool in the box, but solid and dependable.

From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2023

And not in the simpleton type of way.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 26, 2023

Like Gump, a good-hearted simpleton, who travels through milestones in US history - the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal - Chaddha's life takes him through the cultural and political turnpikes of 20th-Century India.

From BBC • Aug. 9, 2022

A butcher and a simpleton climb a beanstalk to a giant and a hen that lays golden eggs.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2020

It’s not like I’m some simpleton who doesn’t know anything about life.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez