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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.

Fool


Definition:

  • (n.) A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool.
  • (n.) One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural.
  • (n.) A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt.
  • (n.) One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person.
  • (n.) One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments.
  • (v. i.) To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.
  • (v. t.) To infatuate; to make foolish.
  • (v. t.) To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After trading mistakes, Wawrinka got lucky at 30-30, mishitting a service return and fooling Djokovic.
  • (2) How opiates became the love of my life | Alisha Choquette Read more The numbers are not specific to the type of drug used, but we’d be fools to think opiates don’t lead the list.
  • (3) Sage did not suffer fools gladly, and often the world seemed increasingly full of them.
  • (4) But it is difficult not to conclude that the survey, which ends on St Andrew’s day, 30 November, has been something of a fools errand for those loyal driveway-trampers.
  • (5) The idea that these problems exist on the other side of the world, and that we Australians can ignore them by sheltering comfortably in our own sequestered corner of the globe, is a fool’s delusion.” Brandis sought to reach out to Australian Muslims, saying the threat came “principally from a small number of people among us who try to justify criminal acts by perverting the meaning of Islam”.
  • (6) "So don't be fooled again: you cannot afford Labour.
  • (7) The Peppers like to be jerks (at Dingwalls Swan dedicated a song to “all you whiney Britishers who can suck my American cock”), but don’t let the surface attitude fool you.
  • (8) So it is only a fool, like me, who would walk nonchalantly around the headland during a high wind.
  • (9) A few months later, the certificate was discovered being used in Iran to fool people who were accessing Gmail into thinking that their connection was secure; in fact any suitably equipped hacker could have monitored their emails.
  • (10) It's Jane Austen all over again, and we've just fooled ourselves that the complicated financial system has changed a thing.
  • (11) No sufferer of fools, he also found it difficult to put up with what he felt to be the arrogance of some colleagues.
  • (12) An immensely cerebral man, who trained himself to need only six hours of sleep - believing that a woman should have seven and only a fool eight - Mishcon was not a man given to small talk, nor one who would tolerate prattle for the sake of it.
  • (13) Standing Rock protests: this is only the beginning Read more “When the Dakota Access Pipeline breaks (and we know that too many pipelines do), millions of people will have crude-oil-contaminated water … don’t let the automatic sink faucets in your homes fool you – that water comes from somewhere, and the second its source is contaminated, so is your bathtub, and your sink, and your drinking liquid.
  • (14) He has been declared "a Shakespearean fool, the only one who can say what others can't" and "an antidote to the proliferation of neo-Nazi movements which took hold of Hungary and Greece".
  • (15) It helps to make testing fun, capitalizes on the student's natural tendency to fool around, and teaches something in the process.
  • (16) 7.44pm BST The April Fools' Day jokes have slowed as people actually get back to work, so we're going to sign off.
  • (17) He said: "To people of a certain age, Stuart Hall will be known as the presenter of It's A Knockout, a good-natured TV programme in which members of the public cheerfully made fools of themselves on camera.
  • (18) Although his finance minister François Baroin pledged on Friday night that there would be no more "austerity measures", only a fool, or someone who expected to be out of office later this year, would promise otherwise.
  • (19) In other words, Mr Johnson is making a fool of himself and of Britain over issues that will have the deepest national repercussions.
  • (20) Cue the day’s first SPR (silent printer rage): another four minutes eaten up by a printer refusing to be fooled by the off-on tactic.

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