Sentence examples for the dunce from inspiring English sources
noun
One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt.
The change in the dunce gene is more subtle.
It was like I was the dunce of the class".
"It was like having to stand in the corner with the dunce cap.
The minister's daughter, Ruth, sat in the last row reserved for the dunce girls.
Not all are convinced that Pisa officials should don the dunce cap.
One online Army discussion group elicited an attack on the dunce cap.
Miliband branded Cameron the "dunce of Downing Street" for allowing Royal Mail to be undervalued.
Just as with Dan Quayle, the Dunce label has proven durable.
Next, we tested whether an increase in the cAMP level by a genetic reduction of the dunce-encoded phosphodiesterase (PDE), an enzyme that degrades cAMP, ameliorated neuronal dysfunction in Aβ42 flies.
In exchanges on the price of Royal Mail shares, Mr Miliband said the PM was "not so much the 'Wolf of Wall Street' as the 'dunce of Downing Street'".
