Meaning of dunderhead | Babel Free

Definitions

A stupid person; a dunce.

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Examples

“You're the stupidest dunderhead I ever saw⟳ or ever heard of, so help⟳ me Moses!”

“Poor old fellow's a dunderhead. That's where it is in a nutshell. Never could make⟳ a living. […] Nice old chap as ever lived. Only impractical, dreamy. Gentle as a sheep—and no more capable of running that big, expensive plant⟳ than a motherly old ewe.”

“Cheney & Company swooned over Mr. Chalabi because he was telling them what they wanted to hear⟳. . . . A half-dozen dunderheads who thought they knew everything assumed they could control⟳ Mr. Chalabi and use⟳ him as the instrument of their utopian fantasies.”

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