dullard

Oh, you progressive dullards! You don't understand.

Thou, who, to my thinking, art beyond all doubt a dullard, without early rising or night watching or taking any trouble, with the mere breath of knight-errantry that has breathed upon thee, seest thyself without more ado governor of an island, as though it were a mere matter of course.

The men, pitching forward insanely, had burst into cheerings, moblike and barbaric, but tuned in strange keys that can arouse the dullard and the stoic.

"The court pronounces the defendant--DEAD!" and the Story Girl was wont to render it with such dramatic intensity and power that the veriest dullard among her listeners could not have missed its force and significance.

David was always a quiet, orderly boy and for a long time was thought by the people of Wines- burg to be something of a dullard. His eyes were brown and as a child he had a habit of looking at things and people a long time without appearing to see what he was looking at.

A quick brain and a better education elsewhere showed the boy very soon that his grandsire was a dullard, and he began accordingly to command him and to look down upon him; for his previous education, humble and contracted as it had been, had made a much better gentleman of Georgy than any plans of his grandfather could make him.

The wisdom of a million fools in the diction of a dullard. A fossil sentiment in artificial rock.

very who so bring on our These attacks are nasty, personal in nature and they run the risk of inciting the very dullards who so often bring shame on our game.

The development, however, irked the staffers and the Oyo State council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), who protested the portrayal of members as dullards and incompetent, with some of the staffers complaining to Nigerian Tribune that they never could have failed the test, alleging a hidden agenda on the part of government.

Was there ever a country with so many dullards wandering around congratulating themselves on their own stupidity while stopping occasionally to check that their microphones are in working order and they've got the spelling correct?

The campmates may not have been total dullards but it's not exactly been thrill-a-minute.

Throw over-protective PR advisers into the mix and we're getting a sporting cast-list of dullards.