Sentence examples for sounds dumb from inspiring English sources

'Dumb,' if somebody sounds dumb".

"It sounds dumb, but the movie wanted to be made," she said.

'Dumb,' if somebody sounds dumb". Some callers, like Glen from Forest, Louisiana, are capable of earning all three adjectives.

It sounds dumb now, but I agreed to judge the Folio prize thinking it would be simple.

It sounds dumb but from an acting point of view I always focused on James Marsters as punk vamp Spike, Alyson Hannigan as goofy sidekick Willow and Anthony Head as stuffy librarian cum demon hunter Giles.

She and her husband Henry (Hap) have five children: Maryjo, 18; Jane, 16; Christine, 14; John, 10, and Robin, 8. "My children will be the first to tell me if we're doing something wrong or something that sounds dumb to them," she said.

Then the Devils fan started to sound dumb.

But do strong accents make us sound dumb?

SFJ: That sounded dumb, what I just said.

Sometimes I'd copy what he said, and it would sound dumb coming out of my mouth, so maybe it was dumb in the first place.

Whether you're trying to sound sophisticated or simply repeating what you've heard, word fails are all too common and can make smart people sound dumb.