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The phrase "a dumbass" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used informally to describe someone who is perceived as foolish or lacking intelligence.
Example: "I can't believe he forgot his own birthday; what a dumbass!"
Alternatives: "an idiot" or "a fool".
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God, I'm such a dumbass".
Me being a dumbass hillbilly, I didn't understand what was going on.
It was, he himself now recognises, "a dumbass" thing to do.
You didn't bring an umbrella, because you're a dumbass and didn't check the weather.
If you try to come up with a unified field theory about it, you sound like a dumbass.
In Macon, Georgia, on Monday, according to the Times, a man shouted out that President Obama was a "dumbass".
Then you go home and your friends know you and tell you what a dumbass you are.
Funny, how? Equipped with a dumbass laugh straight off Beavis and Butthead, Burns is often wrongly written off as a boorish Aussie when he is actually one of the most thoughtful acts around.
He has said Mick Jagger "looks like a d**k", called Kanye a "dumbass" and said he'd "rather drink petrol" than listen to an Alex Turner interview - but when asked to discuss his first encounter with Sir Paul McCartney, the rock star is full of praise.
Starring Kevin Bacon and Radha Mitchell as a couple whose autistic son brings home a terrifying supernatural force from the Grand Canyon, the film was described by the Guardian's Jordan Hoffman as a "dumbass, inexpensive horror flick" featuring "poorly rendered CG ghosts".
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You're graduating into a tragic dumbass comedy," he continued, garnering a roar of applause. .
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