Sentence examples for such a dunce from inspiring English sources
He chose to amend some factual errors – "in my very first story I was such a dunce that I got a grammatical term wrong" – and smoothed some "small points of clumsiness" that had become irritatingly apparent to him when reading the stories in public over the years.
If they scream at you for replying back, telling them the chain letter is junk and not worth getting creeped out over, then you're probably better off without them as a friend, and it's their fault for being such a dunce and choosing to believe a rubbish chain email over you who they were supposed to think of as their friend.
QUESTION FROM DAVID: Is it ironic that the movie trailer has a Kanye West song, and Kanye is such a proven dunce at the social network scene?
Herman Melville remarked, "The class of wealthy people are, in aggregate, such a mob of gilded dunces, that not to be wealthy carries with it a certain distinction and nobility".
In the presence of such restraint, one can certainly start to feel like a dunce.
His less-than-stellar performance earned him punishments such as being forced to sit for hours in the girls' corner wearing a dunce cap.
So Reid risks looking like a dunce.
A GOOD teacher, but a dunce at top-level politics.
A dunce's hat, though, for not providing any chairs.
