Example Sentences

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In essence, “Marmalade” pretends to be more dunderheaded than it is, then acts as if it’s been smart all along, in a shift that takes it from insulting to incoherent.

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2024

Suffice it to report, the plot is thin, dialogue dunderheaded, but every one of director Louis Leterrier’s action scenes stuns the senses.

From Washington Times • Aug. 17, 2023

While mulling dunderheaded strategies to rebrand PGM, Shiv receives a sobering phone call from her assistant: all of the top divorce lawyers in New York have "conflicted out," refusing to represent her.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2023

But no one could imagine the next, simultaneously hideous and dunderheaded place it would lead under his unique guidance.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 29, 2021

But then I said to myself, 'Possy, they are a bunch of dunderheaded old fossils over there.

From When I Grow Up by Lowe, Richard E.