Sentence examples similar to poor simpleton from inspiring English sources

– and pulls poor Leonard Bast (played by Joseph Quinn more as a simpleton, so far, than a member of the lower middle class) into the chain of events by running off with his umbrella.

Mother drew a number of local simpletons into her orbit, among them poor old drunken Thaddeus Craven, and burnt them up as thoroughly as the earth's atmosphere consumes asteroids.

A primeval simpleton.

He called me a simpleton.

aesthete or an earnest simpleton?

Here, I become an overawed simpleton.

"I'm not some happy-faced simpleton.

DREW--Stanley. Baker and noble simpleton.

He is what he is: a simpleton.

Deep down, Ieng Sary thought him a simpleton.

Mr Bayrou is not a simpleton.