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dullard

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dull·ard  (dlrd)
n.
A person regarded as mentally dull; a dolt.
dullard
Noun
Old-fashioned a dull or stupid person
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Noun1.dullarddullard - a person who is not very bright; "The economy, stupid!"
dolt, pillock, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe, stupid, stupid person
berk - a stupid person who is easy to take advantage of
blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead - a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence
klutz - (Yiddish) a clumsy dolt
simpleton, simple - a person lacking intelligence or common sense
2.dullarddullard - a person who evokes boredom
bore
disagreeable person, unpleasant person - a person who is not pleasant or agreeable
gasbag, windbag - a boring person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics
nudnick, nudnik - (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest
platitudinarian - a bore who makes excessive use of platitudes
stuffed shirt - a bore who is extremely formal, pompous, and old-fashioned
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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.
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
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 Red Badge of Courage by Crane, Stephen View in context
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.
The Golden Road by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
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