halfwit

/ ˈhɑːfˌwɪt /

noun

1. a feeble-minded person

2. a foolish or inane person

Other Word Forms

• halfwittedly adverb
• halfwitted adjective
• halfwittedness noun

Example Sentences

To Pirro, nefarious liberal forces are using “their hunger for power, and their hunger to be in control to destroy a man who is the strongest man I've ever met, to put some halfwit in the White House!”

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Were Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush not enough to persuade us that any halfwit who can string together a few cliches from a teleprompter will suffice?

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A psychologist who killed his mother in a hammer attack called her a "Brexit-voting halfwit", a court has heard.

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The court heard he referred to his mother as "the Brexit-voting halfwit".

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On one side of the ring we have the bearded halfwit known as Donald Trump Jr. On the other side is his little sister Ivanka, patron saint of hypocrites.

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