simpleton

• SSG means Staff Sergeant of the United States Army, there bub, and it means I don't take kindly being called a simpleton or being ridiculed when you're being protected by me at night, so you should just shut your mouth and appreciate it … —  PopPolitics.com
• Of course, there is a kind of simplicity which is a survival of childhood, a guileless, childish ignorance; but when a man is simple in a childish way, he is only what we call a simpleton. —  Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion
• She knew herself for a simpleton--just a poor girl; she knew herself made ridiculous by this parade; could see herself as she was. —  Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso
• But this was soon made known to him when one of the persons at the window exclaimed, "What a simpleton is the corregidor's son, to make a practice of serenading a scullery-maid. —  The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes
• It was not the first time that she had been called a simpleton, or some kindred name, by the out-spoken Miss Fanny; for this young lady prided herself on not being afraid to speak plainly, and tell people just what she thought of them As we before said, Mary's cheek flushed a little; but she instantly thought to herself, "It is Fanny, and I won't mind it." —  Be Courteous or, Religion, the True Refiner

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