dimwit

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I love seeing the latest polls stating that this dimwit is the main cause of McCain's tanking campaign.

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  • There were all kinds of justifiable excuses for behaving like a dimwit. —  Greene, Jennifer - Rock Solid (html).html
  • Speaking in the voice of one instructing a dimwit, he explained. —  Stephanie Laurens - Four In Hand
  • What the hell right did a dimwit like Dotty—and she was a dimwit or she couldn't like soap operas—have to possess the ability to turn out continuity like a sausage machine turns out sausage—a foot a second—while a smart guy like him had to sweat the stuff out Damn the wench. —  Murder Can Be Fun
  • I hope that Honourable Members will bear that in mind in future interventions and make use of the richness of the English language and select elegant phrases that express their meaning without causing offence to others An American commentator, probably an enthusiast who watched our proceedings on the C-Span channel, reflected on my alarm at the use of 'dimwit' and on the coarseness of American political dialogue.
  • Pelosi is such a major dimwit, but looking at her constituency, I understand how she got elected. —  Hoosier Army Mom's Weblog
 

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dimwit:   dimwits
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