numskull
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It starts in 1486 with the royal committee that advised the king and queen of Spain not to fund a numskull named Christopher Columbus.
From Washington Post • Sep. 7, 2021
I was 22, an age-appropriate numskull, spending a Christmas holiday backpacking through Greece with friends.
From Washington Post • Sep. 4, 2020
“I would like to meet that numskull that would say that.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 27, 2018
When he appears before a Congressional committee, he never makes the mistake of making some confused legislator look like a numskull, a trick which had delighted his mercurial, more brilliant predecessor, Leon Henderson.
From Time Magazine Archive
“You don’t catch bees with honey. Any numskull knows that. You could catch a bear with honey, but why in the world would I want to do such a thing?”
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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