(a.) Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes.
(a.) Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not accompanied by words; as, dumb show.
(a.) Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color.
(v. t.) To put to silence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cheers, then, to an apparent alliance of the NME, a few people in London's trendy E1 district and some dumb young musicians, because "New Rave" is upon us, and there is apparently no stopping it.
(2) Four brain smears from dogs which died of dumb rabies were positive for Negri bodies while two brain smears obtained from dogs which died of the furious form of rabies were negative.
(3) The court heard that MP responded to Nimmo's message of "Dumb blonde bitch" with the message "That's dumb Dr blonde bitch to you".
(4) At the moment, most of our electricity and gas meters are dumb, analogue devices: they record your consumption and someone comes round periodically to take a reading.
(5) We now show by immunoelectron microscopy that Fab fragments of a desmin-specific monoclonal antibody mixed with the rod lead to dumb-bell-shaped structures.
(6) On admission, a dumb-bell type huge tumor with the destruction of the orbital roof was demonstrated on CT scan and MRI.
(7) The non-solid bacilli were further classified on the basis of their morphology to the following forms:-- (a) short but evenly stained (b) indented (c) beaded (d) dumb-bell shaped (e) coccoid and (f) fragmented.
(8) In an ideal world, such findings might be interpreted as smart women making smart choices, but instead it seems that this research is just adding fuel to the argument that women who don't have children, regardless of the reason, are not just selfish losers but dumb ones as well.
(9) Large granules, 160 nm in diameter, already reported in the ITP (KEMALI 1977a), are also shown as well as tiny flat mixed with large flat dense core vesicles of dumb-bell shape.
(10) Critics accused the BBC of dumbing down when Kirsty Young replaced Sue Lawley as host of Desert Island Discs, while t he dismissal of Ed Stourton from the Today presenting team was executed shambolically , with the presenter learning his fate from a rival news organisation rather than his bosses.
(11) As in canine rabies there are furious and dumb forms of the disease.
(12) Charlie Hebdo was launched by a group of "non-conformists" who had previously run a monthly called Hara Kiri (whose subtitle read: "dumb and nasty").
(13) He might have been born with a silver spoon and declared bankruptcy four or five times but he is not dumb.
(14) A GST on fresh food is an exceptionally dumb strategy in the midst of an obesity crisis | Catherine King Read more Labor said that much of that money would go towards compensating lower income earners, leaving little money for other services.
(15) Dumb rabies and cysticerci in dogs being sold to people in rural communities pose potential public health hazards.
(16) In a blog published on Friday afternoon entitled "My teenage mistakes" , Weldon said his year-long flirtation would have remained the embarrassing stuff of his youth had he not a few years later done what he described as a "dumb thing" and boasted about his past in an Oxford student newspaper.
(17) Mitt's now trying to rebut the "Let Detroit go bankrupt" line o argument, which is dumb.
(18) The internet of things is the idea of creating a home where everything is connected to the internet, creating “swarm intelligence” from individually dumb devices.
(19) Gove launched an all-out attack on the "educational establishment", claiming it suffered from "defeatism, political correctness and the entrenched culture of dumbing down".
(20) "We will tackle head-on the defeatism, the political correctness and the entrenched culture of dumbing down that is at the heart of our educational establishment."
Goofy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) After dismissing the ending of Revolutionary Road as "falsely bleak" and telling his audience that "there's something goofy about American literature since modernism came to an end", the celebrated author of Freedom and The Corrections moved on to social media .
(2) Key, a trader turned politician who combines a CEO-style leadership approach with a down-to-earth, sometimes goofy personal image, continues to rank by far the highest in preferred prime minister polling.
(3) As intentionally goofy as it was, it was meant to go viral, to secretly spread optimism not just among the clearly on-board diehards in the Staples crowd but all throughout the basketball world.
(4) (Goofy as it sounds, this one actually helped me a lot.)
(5) Hard Festival's Richards wanted to lose the "goofy fashion" side of rave that EDC revels in.
(6) The Big Bang Theory’s Kaley Cuoco has been getting a lot of play this week—as William Shatner’s secret daughter in the new Priceline ads , and now as a goofy genie who mishears wishes Emily Litella -style while promoting the Toyota RAV4 .
(7) Baskets, of course, is his own brand of outrageous and goofy dingus.
(8) It was quite a serious story but punctuated by these soundbites of goofy cartoon noises,” Kanoniuk said.
(9) The goofy hashtag didn't prevent most readers from taking the tweet for sincere.
(10) Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen Their last visit to Edinburgh saw them nominated for the If.Comedy award for their goofy sketch-show Double Down Hearts.
(11) It’s easy to tell from the very start when a celebrity has the goods to be a great Saturday Night Live host – are they smart, goofy, and willing to make fun of themselves and their friends?
(12) Sellars admits his stagings have often been characterised by "whatever crazy or goofy thing is going on", but 30-odd years after he began his professional career, his focus has changed.
(13) There is the goofy 47-year-old actor and writer whose sleepy chipmunk face and everyman demeanour give no hint of his estimated $300m (£180m)fortune – nor the $25m price-tag (including producer's fee) that comes with his participation on a movie.
(14) Korine is big-sisterly and diplomatic, Benson and Hudgens are goofy, gabby, earnest and lovable by turns, while Gomez, the youngest and the only non-blonde in the movie, is often the one who sensibly and self-deprecatingly re-routes a conversation going adrift, who actually answers the original question, exuding the kind pragmatism, sanity and poise you might expect from a hard-bitten 13-year veteran of the kiddie-showbiz wars.
(15) Public Enemy was meant to be a lively democracy, with Chuck mediating between the goofy, anarchic Flavor Flav and the stern, ultra-militant “Minister of Information” Professor Griff, but that didn’t pan out.
(16) Wife and stepson charged in murder of Ku Klux Klan leader in Missouri Read more Asked for comment on the report, Andrew Anglin, the founder of the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer site, wrote: “It’s just more of the same goofy gibberish from the Jews.” After decades on the fringes of American life, racist hate groups found themselves unexpectedly in the mainstream news spotlight last year, as Ku Klux Klan members and neo-Nazis rejoiced at Donald Trump’s rise and his presidential victory.
(17) But mostly the magic of my daughter’s joy at comparing ear length with Goofy, meeting Elsa (spoiler: “it’s not the real one, she’s wearing a wig”) and dancing along at a high-energy deck party, while I necked alcoholic blue-and-pink slush puppies.
(18) 'Dad's an awesome guy, he's a fun guy, he's a goofy guy, he likes to make people laugh, he likes to buy gifts for people and stuff' - I never experienced that with them.
(19) Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel are competing for a young, online audience, not with the old tricks – monologues, interviews, skits – but with goofy segments ready-made for viral consumption.” Even before moving to the US, Corden had amassed more than 4.5 million Twitter followers.
(20) The son of the talented and well-liked former New Orleans Saints quarterback Archie Manning, Peyton might not be as handsome as a Brady or a Donovan McNabb, but makes up for that with a goofy and self-deprecating sense of humour.