What's the difference between deadhead and dullard?

Deadhead


Definition:

  • (n.) One who receives free tickets for theaters, public conveyances, etc.
  • (n.) A buoy. See under Dead, a.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Benny Silver AKA Deadhead – DCI Luther's dope-smoking, Warcraft-playing, prog-loving tech support dude.
  • (2) As a certified Grateful Deadhead who was also into John Coltrane and free-jazz, Ginn valued individualism and uniqueness more than Xerox punk.
  • (3) Descendants of the Deadhead culture that was left in the lurch when the Grateful Dead expired, jam band fans have turned onto dubstep in a huge way.

Dullard


Definition:

  • (n.) A stupid person; a dunce.
  • (a.) Stupid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And wrong because it was carefully, cynically manufactured to get dullards hot under the collar – and lefty writers like me waffling on about precisely how wrong it is on Comment is free.
  • (2) Meanwhile, in a (seemingly) parallel story, medieval dullard Alaïs must protect the (apparently) same ring from gnashing crusaders and conniving sister Oriane, who is also banging Alaïs's expressionless husband.
  • (3) Their only MP is a “dullard” who needs to be expelled, says the party’s millionaire backer .
  • (4) Leader of the Lib Dems Tim Farron joined calls for the British government to honour its pledges by immediately rescuing vulnerable minors who are eligible to be in the UK, saying: “If Theresa May does not act now, she will not only be shaming her government but shaming the country.” Anita Dullard of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said there had been a rise in incidents of sexual violence in Greece’s refugee camps and that they had alerted the government.
  • (5) But he will always be remembered for his great role, to which he brought such passion and power: TE Lawrence, who single-handedly led an Arab force against the Ottoman empire and succeeded in infuriating the stuffy dullards who made up the British army's officer class.
  • (6) On the one hand, then, our hero is one of the many MPs for that most over-represented of constituencies: dreary dullards so bereft of anything resembling a "character" that they imagine bores such as Mr Fabricant to be one.
  • (7) Why didn’t I shag a builder, or a bendy yoga dullard?
  • (8) He made the leads "nice" people (Laura and Alec, a housewife and a doctor) and the supporting characters clear-cut English types – Stanley Holloway as the naughty, good-hearted station master and Joyce Carey as the bossy, buffet manageress, as well as Cyril Raymond who is quite exquisite as Laura's husband, Fred, a decent dullard who senses that his wife has "been away" but cannot dream of what she has been up to or how close they have all come to disaster.
  • (9) As for Mirror journalists, they learned under the grey administration of David Montgomery that despots are often preferable to dullards and, but for fear of reprisal, would, it is said, have produced lapel badges that read: "Come back Maxwell, (almost) all is forgiven."
  • (10) He draws a comparison between that show’s Rob Lowe’s clean-cut dullard and the actor who plays Josh Lyman, the mesmerising deputy chief of staff.
  • (11) But last night was when the cleverness died because somehow Van Gaal got it wrong and Holland are out , losing on penalties to Argentina after a grinding stalemate which can either generously be described as a tactically absorbing encounter or more appropriately as WHAT THE BLOODY HELL DO YOU THINK THAT WAS YOU INCESSANT DULLARDS, O FIVERÃO WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT AND INSTEAD YOU SERVE UP THAT GRUEL, YOU CLOWNS ALL WANT TO HAVE A LONG, HARD LOOK AT YOURSELVES BECAUSE THAT WASN’T GOOD ENOUGH, IT WASN’T EVEN CLOSE TO BEING GOOD ENOUGH, HOW CAN ANY MATCH THAT FEATURES SO MUCH OF THAT TEDIOUS CHANCER DIRK KUYT LOCATING ROW Z WITH HIS ‘CROSSES’ BE CONSIDERED ACCEPTABLE, I MEAN REALLY, DIRK KUYT ON THE LEFT WING, JOHAN CRUYFF DIDN’T DIE FOR THIS.
  • (12) When I hear him prattle on inanely I can imagine how Neil Lennon felt when the Geordie dullard kicked him in the head."
  • (13) Read more Pools win prizes If financial investigators are really keen to catch out the parents of these preening dullards, they could do a lot worse than to examine their endless photographs of impractically tiny rooftop infinity pools.
  • (14) He's a negative, percentage football dullard who has achieved absolutely nothing in the game, ever.

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