Sentence examples for act dumb from inspiring English sources

It also helps to sometimes act dumb.

She was told to wear a low-cut gown, sit on a stool and act dumb.

It leaves Ms. Griffith with little to do but act dumb and look sexy, and that is not really fair.

Still, The Evening Standard of London thought Tindall and his teammates deserved a break for their escapades in New Zealand, saying, "Sportsmen are men and men like to get drunk and act dumb".

"Students who hold a fixed view of their intelligence care so much about looking smart that they act dumb," Dweck writes, "for what could be dumber than giving up a chance to learn something that is essential for your own success?" In a similar experiment, Dweck gave a class of preadolescent students a test filled with challenging problems.

"The Khmer Rouge leaders are genuine profiteers," he said, "who know when to play smart, when to act dumb and when to make use of concepts like 'national reconciliation' in order to sow discord between the government and the United Nations and possibly forestall forever the day of reckoning".

His singing was heightened speech, the notes and rhythms always making a direct expressive effect, across a range from care to anger to, in the last act, dumb bewilderment mixed with an emphatic wish still to get to the truth (a word he sang with the tremolo of bursting emotion).

At this point, the best thing to do is act dumb.