Sentence examples for acted dumb from inspiring English sources
Up front, Sindelar and Karl Sesta acted dumb, allowing the Germans to dictate play.
I just acted dumb, but really I was scheming.
It also helps to sometimes act dumb.
She acts dumb, bewitched, like a goat that the neighborhood children have fed sorghum beer.
It leaves Ms. Griffith with little to do but act dumb and look sexy, and that is not really fair.
"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".
At this point, the best thing to do is act dumb.
All negotiators act dumb at first and as they "increase their knowledge" you inevitably get screwed.
Guys act dumb, like act-act.
