simpleton

Example Sentences

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And not in the simpleton type of way.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 26, 2023

Turning what could have been merely a simpleton into a lost soul, Keoghan’s work here is vivid and heartbreaking.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2022

As the simpleton Lymon, Fisher occasionally goes too hokey, especially when it comes to his Southern drawl, but is endearing nonetheless with his dopey physicality and witless expressions.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2022

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

Straining for a new disguise of servant and simpleton, I sucked on my fist and stared about vacantly.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine