Sentence examples for slightly dumb from inspiring English sources

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Before, it had been warm and slightly dumb, the smile of a young lady from a provincial capital, but it had become a mean, hurtful smile, and it was easy to read the resentment, rage, and envy behind it.

In his books from David and Goliath to Blink and The Tipping Point, Gladwell has mastered the art of telling eye-opening stories about the "slightly dumb, obvious questions" in life – why certain people like The Beatles or Bill Gates have massive success, how we make decisions, how probable it is for improbable events to happen, how stereotypes form.

As such, his writing talks to all of us, by dint of the common questions he seeks to ask, such as how can you tell if someone is going to be good at their job, or why is there no alternative to Heinz Tomato Ketchup? "I'm interested in slightly dumb, obvious questions, right," he says.

If you ever try to have a conversation with a slightly dumb person you will notice it goes nowhere.

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You'd be forgiven for thinking of Gears of War or perhaps a slightly dumber Mass Effect.

Overall, it sounds like a slightly dumbed down Pebble, or perhaps a more intelligent Martian Notifier, but with a heavy emphasis on the good looks of a more traditional (and timeless) timepiece.

Eighty percent of the people you'll interact with will be exactly the same as you, but with slightly dumber tattoo stories.

Holmes is the brilliant, icy-nerved, mercurial, logical, patriotic superman (but one who likes dressing up and running rings round the cops) and Watson his brave, loyal and slightly- dumber-than-the-reader sidekick.

Interestingly, the reindeer doesn't talk, the animators steering away from the more traditional Disney anthropomorphism to plough the slightly edgier dumb-mutt comedy of the dog in Up.

When they came back from their honeymoon, I remember seeing the two of them walk through the door as Linda cooed in her dumb, slightly masculine voice, "We've got presents!" She was decked out in head-to-toe Disney, as was my father.

Slightly NSFW and really dumb.

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