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Dunderhead
noun
A stupid person; a dunce
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The dunderhead makes a gaffe on radio when he says a war in the Middle East is "unforeseeable".
By his own admission, Pacino was a "dunderhead" at academic work, and by the time he dropped out of school, at sixteen, to support his mother, he was ready to go.
You dunderhead, I'm savin that one".
That's the day I received the most e-mails from Knicks fans wondering if I was ready to apologize for being such a dunderhead (or more colorful words to that effect).
So maybe I was a dunderhead, or something colorfully worse.
"Anyone who looks like this, and doesn't know he looks like a leprechaun," Mr. Buzzutto explained, "is a dunderhead, for crying out loud".
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Give them an interesting problem and they will get cracking, he adds with enthusiasm.Hiring eggheads rather than dunderheads is generally wise, though it can backfire: just ask the banks that employed "quants" by the dozen to create financial instruments that no one understood.
I can't really be bothered to have a go at the media's favourite troll here because she feeds off it, and it would simply be more grist to her mill and to the dunderheads who pay for her bile.
What if stupidity was a Sars-like super-virus of the mind which made even the moderately bright become dunderheads – without knowing it?
These, despite sounding like a new range of self-applying diapers, are well-intentioned metal dunderheads, residing here on Earth, and promising, "The day will never come when we forsake this planet and its people".
You see tough, weathered types who have met many dunderheads in their time, and this fop is no different — he's nothing to them, a speck, and they'll brush him off the instant he leaves the room.
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