How to Use dullard in a Sentence

dullard

noun
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  • The company is run by a bunch of dullards.
  • There's still enough there to make young children and dullards laugh.
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 29 June 2017
  • Usually the equal-weight S&P does better, as smaller members of the index outperform the dullards at the top.
    — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 14 June 2018
  • All the characters, from the callow manipulators to the well-meaning dullards, are awash in cliché.
    — Susanna Lee, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Moreover, that dullard of a husband, Richard (the late Don Galloway, who later in life wrote a libertarian newspaper column), is the secret hero of the film.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 7 Apr. 2021
  • This is a beautiful three-hour dullard, a study in inertia, its characters reflected all too faithfully by the film itself.
    — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Perhaps, but like his dullard son-in-law who’s trying to split the vote by putting a troubled rapper on the ballot, the president playing a song in recognizable Republican chords.
    — Adam Weinstein, The New Republic, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Fishes have long been dismissed as dullards, but new observations and studies are proving this assumption wrong.
    — Jonathan Balcombe, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
  • There is a common assumption that dictionaries are put together by faceless dullards.
    — Henry Hitchings, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2017
  • Yet, the film waves off character development and merely side-eyes its frustrations with capitalism in its rush to convince us that this dullard is in fact a supervillain who is game to manipulate, maim and poison for a marble firepit.
    — Amy Nicholson, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2020
  • This means performing some typical Twitter feats—fact-checking and #realkeeping when dullards spout detestable dumbness.
    — Adam Weinstein, WIRED, 12 Mar. 2015
  • There are cheapskates galore, dissemblers, busybodies, dullards and charlatans.
    — A.e. Stallings, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2018

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