dufus
Americannoun
plural
dufusesExample Sentences
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If you have any doubt about what Rasmussen is doing here, I encourage you to watch the big dufus energy on display in the video below, this time featuring Rasmussen’s head of polling, Mark Mitchell:
From Slate
I spend a couple of days in bed and binge on Star Trek reruns with my cat Admiral Dufus on my lap.
From Slate
Eno, the dufus, dropped his soon after the warning, so we all had to get down on the chapel floor on our knees and knuckles, like penitents.
From Literature
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Where Bruce was presented as something of a dufus, despite being nothing of a dufus, Hughes, despite appearing something of a dufus, is not so much charmless as charmophobic, paranoia lurking where joy usually blooms.
From The Guardian
Called-out comment Reply jambo86 Perry, what a dufus.
From Forbes
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