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dullard

[ duhl-erd ]

noun

  1. a stupid, insensitive person.

    Synonyms: , , ,



dullard

/ ˈʌə /

noun

  1. a dull or stupid person
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of dullard1

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; dull, -ard
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Epstein said that his "closest friend for 10 years" had a great mind for real estate, but was otherwise a complete dullard.

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We have an insipid media landscape riddled with dullards, idiots, partisans and clowns.

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She wears her power like a second skin and speaks a mid-Atlantic accent similar to the one Leigh used in “The Hudsucker Proxy,” only mellowed by casks of rare scotch and impatience with unrefined dullards.

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They must get struck, bent, broken and shoved into the flames to mold the boy into a man, the dullard into a dagger.

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“Love’s Labor’s Lost,” with or without the British “u,” is a very youthful, disjointed text, its thin thread of plot repeatedly cut by clowns, dullards, puns, pomposities and noodling that goes nowhere.

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