Sentence examples for Numbskull from inspiring English sources
The word "Numbskull" is usable in written English and is considered informal
It can be used to describe someone who is perceived as foolish or lacking intelligence. Example: "He acted like a numbskull when he forgot his own birthday." Alternatives include "fool" or "blockhead."
Jill Abramson's sacking as editor of the New York Times, the Boko Haram kidnappings of school girls in Nigeria, any number of numbskull comments from Republicans about rape and abortion, the boys' club nature of new internet start-ups – all of these have led to concentrated bursts of debate over the last year in the US and elsewhere about the future of women and power.
"The BBC needs to make sure they are absolutely somebody who can deliver impartiality even when they are being howled at by numbskull Tories".
And the idea that a numbskull like Sebastian Coe could have any say in major public policy makes my head woozy.
If Gary Cahill had seen red in such numbskull fashion, there would have been the appropriate lambasting but no calls for the reintroduction of the death sentence.
With that nebbish, that clod, that numbskull, that schlemiel you call a husband?" The truth was I'd given up waiting long before.
If naming is claiming, then Adam has nothing on Eve; when he first runs into her, the only word he can come up with is "numbskull".
Slowly prejudices are being shifted, silted, flipped on numbskulls.
José María Olazábal deserved better than the numbskulls in the crowd who would not give him the courtesy of silence as he went about a crucial approach shot.
'Konk', the second album from the stage school numbskulls, will sell more than their debut, because there are clearly a lot of CD consumers about whose favourite 90s band was Dodgy.
Rod has a crew — a meekly charming bunch of numbskulls (the lovable Taccone stands out) — and an old goat of a stepfather (gleefully played by Ian McShane), with whom he is in a perpetual showdown.
They are loud, vulgar, salon-tanned and gym-bulked numbskulls who drink, brawl, belch and use foul language.
