Sentence examples for rather dumb from inspiring English sources

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To some, that might seem like a rather dumb question.

I recall going in, directly from the bustle and colour of the high street, and seeing a series of what appeared to be rather dumb boxes.

Since our brains are hypersensitive to color and signal but rather dumb when it comes to tiny time changes the illusion is convincing, but the differences that produce it are too subtle to notice.

The gadget, which looks like a rather dumb pinwheel of techno-detritus when tacked high in a tree, will be able to tell authorities when bad guys are up to no good in the forest.

OK, actually, it's rather dumb.

This statement is completely wrong and really rather dumb.

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His films have been whip-smart, clearly rooted in journalism rather than dumb enthusiasm.

You could say she's a deer caught in the stage lights, if the idiom connoted animal alertness rather than dumb paralysis.

By Martha Banning Thomas The New Yorker, July 21 , 1928P. 42 I'd rather be dumb than delightful, View Article By Rivka Galchen By Jia Tolentino By David Remnick By Malcolm Gladwell.

What terrific hokum – yet what a fresh-linen relief to turn to clever, organised, serial-killer psychopaths rather than dumb, religious aberrationists – is Crossing Lines!

By Martha Banning Thomas The New Yorker, July 21 , 1928P. 42 I'd rather be dumb than delightful, View Article By Jia Tolentino By Rebecca Mead By Anthony Lane By Alan Burdick.

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