How To Use Dumb In A Sentence

  • While maintaining a level of accessibility and providing information are important, this must not dumb the work down, compromise the artists' intentions, or remove the challenge aspect of art that many people thrive on.
  • She was struck dumb at the news.
  • Pasolini clearly did not intend Salò as a late work, much as Mozart did not design his requiem as adumbrative lament.
  • The cup-marked stone shown below, in the Sma’ Glen, near Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland, is situated in a large man-made concave-shaped amphitheatre in the hills, and has a prominent dumb-bell shaped cup-mark on its surface.
  • What was the State of Florida doing to these poor, dumb animals?
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  • We do not wish her to grow up dumb like the average doll.
  • Anybody can be anybody they want when they are sitting in mommies basement with nothing to do but get online and call people dumbasses. Is “The Fourth Kind” real or fake? Secrets revealed » Scene-Stealers
  • I had given my replacement my helmet, and I sat on the bench seat deaf and dumb.
  • If we look dumb enough, someone's bound to come and help us out.
  • Well, my boy Joey is eight years old, and he's a foul-mouthed dumb-ass little loser just like his father.
  • He stared in dumb misery at the wreckage of the car.
  • Drop it in my face, because I am not obligated to talk to you so don't expect me to start a conversation with you fucking dumbass.
  • Identify all the dumbos out there - in politics, in government, wherever they may find themselves - and invariably they are not readers.
  • Most of us wouldn't choose a career where everything we interact with is prettied up and dumbed down.
  • I had given my replacement my helmet, and I sat on the bench seat deaf and dumb.
  • Anyway, what it shows is that the frontal cortex, where reasoning occurs, is deactivated, meaning that during the BIG O, the male of our species becomes, well, dumb. The Return of Ask Dr. SoT
  • Hollywood, which once made her look hip and powerful, now makes her look craven and silly - and like a dumbo for not getting that it's so over with.
  • And so you just ding the enemies to death, and they're dumb enough to let you do it.
  • Far from deterred, Denier Bud said he had just put the finishing touches on what he considered to be his “best work” so far, a twenty-two-episode, two-hour-and-twenty-two-minute opus entitled Buchenwald: A Dumb Dumb Portrayal of Evil. The Lampshade
  • He might have confirmed the relation between dumbness and darkness from the acutest metaphysician among poets, in Dante's _ove il sol tace_. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860
  • I think you were dumbly trying to convey antagonist or even an antipathist moron. ZDNET.com.au
  • Robin, the only thing dumber than a hummer is a stretch hummer. NYC Kaleidoscope « knitnut.net
  • I wanted, desperately needed for him to reach across the line that he had drawn, and so it was with dumb horror that I watched him retreat, his expression turning lawyerly even as I read the helplessness in his eyes. Dreaming in French
  • Its is obvious to any dumbhead that imports to US if taxed will protect US industry and jobs . Heat rises on the China-U.S. relationship
  • I'm left dumbfounded when a Protestant asks me how I can pretend infallibility is not contradicted in light of this.
  • I had thought that maybe I just got smart and the rag-azine had always been dumb. Perils of SETI
  • Being deaf and dumb makes communication very difficult.
  • She didn't want to be typecast as a dumb blonde.
  • In the existing architecture we modified, the dumb.c draw function copies the source pixel memory area into the destination memory area.
  • I played dumb, as if it wasn't my most favorite song in the entire world.
  • For he really did believe capitalism controls the proles not by physical oppression but by bread and circuses, by cultural debasement - or ‘dumbing down’ as we now nervously say.
  • Stupid fcuking Beckinista dumbshit, take to the internet and look into the massive heat waves that occur, get this, during our winters. Think Progress » Global warming denier Sarah Palin to appear at ‘Oil Palace’ in Texas.
  • looked at each other dumbly, quite disconcerted
  • Being deaf and dumb makes communication very difficult.
  • Yes | No | Report from osobear50 wrote 45 weeks 6 days ago jmcctheboss23 you have to be the dumbest SOB on the planet if you think my comment is the dumbest. The Catch-And-Release Preacher
  • The kitchen is equipped along old-fashioned lines, and meals reach the dining room via a dumb waiter.
  • She never seemed to completely shake the dumb blonde image off.
  • But good use of the word dumbo, really showing off your intelligence there. reign Teasers for Wolverine and Iron Man Anime from Madhouse | /Film
  • Seven months earlier my friend could be seen on campus wearing blue jeans and a shirt that said dumb things.
  • And how much does television have to do with it, that maligned medium always associated with dumbing down?
  • I mean, wouldn't it be dumb for a researcher to spend valuable time and funding seeking phlogiston when his governing theoretic needs no such 'stuff' to explain combustion and he doesn't believe it exists? Behe's Test
  • Mark Sanford continues his campaign to prove that he is as dumb as a fencepost. Short Takes
  • Our experience of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, directed by Landon Johnson for Vespertine Productions at The Flight Theatre at The Complex Theatres, is not so much that of a fly on a wall; a fly's buzz would unbalance Johnson's tersely orchestrated suspense tale of two hit men in a Birmingham basement. James Scarborough: Hollywood Fringe: The Dumb Waiter, Vespertine Productions & Girl Band in the Men's Room, Dirty Blonde Productions
  • They want obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept it. George Carlin 
  • To make it more of a challenge for her fitter students, she relies on an array of aqua accessories, such as webbed gloves that increase resistance and foam dumbbells that help mimic land-based strength exercises. New workout programs show that pools can attract exercisers of all ages
  • Instead of stopping at the top as you normally would on a squat, perform an upright row by pulling the dumbbells up to your collarbones as you pronate your hands - then push off the balls of your feet as the weights reach their maximum height.
  • Cheney/Rumsfeld/Bush and their cabal want to dumb down America and the best way to do that is to undereducate the children and restrict and control the media. Think Progress » 60 percent.
  • He leads a little troupe of amateur actors from village to village, putting on an old-fashioned dumbshow - a type of humorous play with a stock plot.
  • The sight of his former wife dumbed the words in his mouth.
  • UK education ministers continually assert that the education system is not dumbing down - pupils are getting smarter.
  • Well, some girls specialise in married men because they're dumb, nasty bitches who genuinely dislike other women.
  • “At the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945, the Americans set up a display table to show Nazi atrocities,” Denier Bud began miasmically as the camera panned over the familiar objects: “A lot of bogus items, tattooed skin supposedly taken off bodies, a supposedly human skin lampshade, which in reality is just a basic lampshade, but they really went over the edge of dumb when they put this on the table.” The Lampshade
  • My guess is that harold has a low "dumbfound" threshold ... Sound Politics: Ballot measure policy briefs
  • The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth.
  • We were all struck dumb for a minute.
  • The blinkered tendency to derive all-encompassing, universal answers has dumbed down semantic questions, eclipsed interpretative discussion and blinded scholarship to the ways in which context could cook up hermeneutic content.
  • On several occasions during a trip to London last week I was dumbfounded by the evidence of this.
  • The stories begin to accumulate, each one a random intrusion by dumb, underqualified government authorities who seem to have watched too much television and have very little common sense.
  • Any line through the dumb-bell's centre of gravity, perpendicular to the main axis, is also an axis of rotation.
  • Get your dumb "redkneck" ass off of the site you idiot non thinking retard, Oh! sorry that would be an insult to retards, you sub-human freak. (i only used the term retard for affect, i do not or cannott have ignorant positions like you, so let me be clear about that). Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • In other words, it is a node between the dumb router and smart layer control elements that not only touches some of the packet but is involved in more of a control plane manner.
  • Many industry watchers were dumbfounded at the overt bias and political boosterism.
  • He's been deaf and dumb since birth.
  • Colin went on to dumbfound the poor copper telling him that he (Colin) was on the relevant council committee and he knew about these things. A tribute to Colin Rosenstiel
  • Made the contents VERY well-organized; basically dumbass-proof (like idiot-proof, only more … proofy). I NEED YOUR OPINIONS! What should the future of Johnny B. look like? | Johnny B. Truant
  • I gave the kids some colouring in to do this afternoon and was amazed and dumbstruck by their response - they sat quietly, put lots of effort into making the flowers look good and seemed to enjoy it.
  • Yes, if the athlete is dehydrated, any water will accomplish that, dumbo!
  • But after shaking off the flabbergast and the dumbfound he got that expression on his face, the one when he looks like a goddamn boob and he's psyched to tell me something. Josephine Skinny Jeans: Chapter 1
  • After his appointment to the Supreme Court in 1939, he was a frequent dinner guest at Dumbarton Avenue.
  • Gourlay resumed his way, his being a dumb gowl of rage. The House with the Green Shutters
  • What sort of pleasure do you get out of ... mommacrazy30 said: Ellotsinnocent "thats the dumbest thing i have ever seen or heard and Ive seen alot on these pages i sooo agree. whisperswing said: Wow she must be the" debil "mamma, dont cha just hate those people that associate babies with money winfalls? The Dreamin' Demon
  • It's dumb politics to ridicule the puniness of the town where Palin served as mayor. David Quigg: Forgetting Sarah Palin
  • Every day we continue to be fat, dumb, and happy with our IANA private ranges and doing port address translation at the firewall is another day further ensconced in the inebriation of IPv4. Five-year plan: 8 problems IT must solve
  • They reappointed Alan Greenspan because his dumbshit ideology matched their own. Matthew Yglesias » Limbaugh Reiterates Desire for Economy to Tank
  • I was young and dumb, and anything old was just uncool.
  • Not too much imagery as such, just a hint of rawness with use of dumb-bells and sledgehammer to break the monotonous nature of gun-shot violence.
  • The dumb birds swarmed me, flapping their wings like crazy, making clucking sounds, and pecking at my legs.
  • Still, it's important to have real scientists getting the word out, explaining results, not letting popularizers dumb it down, and not letting people leap to conclusions.
  • suggestive and adumbrative manner" -- not, indeed, he acknowledges, a romantic manner, and yet "quite distinct from the classical"; i.e., because of the transcendental character of a portion of his poetry. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
  • She was struck dumb and he walked past her carefully to call her sister.
  • Miss Windsor was always much more intelligent than the all-bust-and-bum dumb blonde image she had created for herself.
  • I'm sure my question sounded really dumb.
  • In mid-February, Mr. Butler quit his mid-level job at a large Wall Street brokerage and started working full-time on the site, at brownstoner. com, from a desk that he subleases from an architect in Dumbo. Brownstoner: It���s Me!
  • Cricket fans will be disappointed to see cricket admissions also excluded from the list, although footballs and dumb-bells make an entrance.
  • But mine was momentarily dumbstruck when, after his talk, I passed through a doorway inside the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino and entered an air-conditioned simulation of the Grand Canal.
  • Pass the dumbledore please, have a nice dumbledore. Regretsy – Starsucks
  • It would mark the apogee of a dumbed-down society, but it is unlikely to happen.
  • It will either be a racist, a sexist, a dumbo, or a flip-flopper ... DNC: Barbour 'defended the indefensible'
  • We do not wish her to grow up dumb like the average doll.
  • Dumbarton equalised two minutes later through Andy Brown.
  • Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and He healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.
  • But she isn't just a dumb blonde.
  • Simple dumbshit, glad to offer my intellectual abilities to the weak-minded among us. Think Progress » ThinkFast: February 18, 2010
  • He had not a peg to hang on and got dumb for some time.
  • Now at that point, faces just sort of go blank, people are dumbfounded.
  • When Patrick Douglas, the learned and honoured, but fortuneless soldier, found that his new competitor for the hand of the gentle Jolande was none other than his sovereign, he was dumb with despair, and the last, the miserable _hope_ which it imparts, and which maketh wretched, began to leave him. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17
  • So-called marketing experts keep telling me I'll need to dumb down to really capture the mass market but it's simply not in my nature.
  • I wonder if pretender is going to do that dumb ass Bruce Springsteen crap today. Think Progress » Church Uses Marquee To Speak Out Against Beck: ‘Sorry Mr Beck, Jesus Preached Social Justice’
  • An enormous cardboard cutout of a short, stubby penguin lay on the ground, the beady black eyes staring up at her dumbly. MINUTES TO BURN
  • Catherine Gibson said she was "dumbstruck" after police revealed that forensic tests showed they had discovered her 25-year-old daughter's body at an address in the Capital, it was reported. Undefined
  • Your analyzer is a beautiful machine, but it's dumb. Lawnmower Season
  • Page 10 to the intoxicating cup for stimulus to artificial excitement, and drowned all seasonable delight in mire, and a poison that not the dumb animals will swallow. God Seen Above All National Calamities
  • Yes, if the athlete is dehydrated, any water will accomplish that, dumbo!
  • These considerations adumbrate the argument for the secondary role of consent in the justification of authority.
  • The current favourite among the newer generation of stars, Kapoor with a toss of her well shaped head pooh-poohs any suggestions of being the ‘dumb blonde’.
  • Lets Let the president fix the heath care system and restore America to when it was the most powerful country on earth and then go after all the stupid logiest that pay dumb schmucks like you to run America in a way that they make all the money even at the cost of human life. Hatch: Ensuring access to health care 'an American issue'
  • It has copied, by the aid of the telescope, the trilingual arrow-headed inscriptions written 300 feet high upon the face of the rocks of Behistun; and though the alphabets and the languages in which these long inscriptions were "graven with a pen of iron and lead upon the rocks for ever," had been long dead and unknown, yet, by a kind of philological divination, Archæology has exorcised and resuscitated both; and from these dumb stones, and from the analogous inscriptions of Van, Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1
  • George Gilder observed more than five years ago, "In a world of dumb terminals and telephones, networks had to be smart.
  • Florent Malouda scored the winner on Saturday but he is as happy veering infield as dumbfounding markers on the outside. Chelsea manager shrugs off heckles and looks to rectify familiar faults
  • The network computer takes us back to the future in the form of the dumb terminal revisited.
  • Clinton must be sad that Rude-EE, her slightly less evil and a crapload lot dumber indentical twin separated from birth New Rudy Ad Features Bhutto Footage, Warns Of Death At Hands Of Radical Muslims
  • Don't you get one day of declaring your candidacy for the White House before you have to answer a dumb, horse-race question like that?
  • Paul Shanley's cutting edge progressivism turns out to have been a high octane return trip back to the world of dumb beasts acting on instinct.
  • In essense the nanites are a hive mind intellegence where each individual nanite is dumb but together they can solve complex problems and preform complex tasks (imagine if all the cells in a human brain could moved autonomously from one another but still work together). Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Which Origin Stories are Plausible?
  • I absolutely disagree that it has been dumbed down.
  • The anti-intellectual vulgarity does contribute to dumbing down.
  • Being deaf and dumb makes communication very difficult.
  • These dumbwaiters are designed much like a standard elevator, with built-in safety brakes and safety interlocks that prevent operation if any door is open.
  • By dogmatically employing ‘news values’ that focus on conflict, drama and simplicity, we get the political stakes raised to the point where political leaders are induced into playing the game of dumbing it down to win the media war.
  • Edinburgh, which no other city has to shew; a college of the deaf and dumb, who are taught to speak, to read, to write, and to practice arithmetick, by a gentleman, whose name is Braidwood. A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
  • They were struck dumb by some sort of shock.
  • Maybe the little jumbo won't be such a dumbo next time. The Sun
  • St Thomas was hardly a "dumb ox" despite his handle.
  • She never seemed to completely shake the dumb blonde image off.
  • The node objects in gnosis.xml.objectify trees are, by design, quite dumb.
  • Lie on the bench with arms out straight, almost vertical, and hold the dumb-bells with palms facing each other.
  • The above is a marriage of a few of my most hated things: that typeface, novelty hair bobbles, dumb photos taken on the laps of costumed characters, and that spaced-out rainbow jumpsuit.
  • One of the big guys will come up with some dumb thing or other, and next thing you know, two weeks later, it's spread to the rest of the plane: ‘Hey, let's start referring to the debates as smackdowns!’
  • All the dumb yellow ribbons, stupid flags going up one extra each day, all the newspapers reporting breathlessly on a new UN meeting had issued a new strong statement of extra-vigorous deploration language. "And when the captured British sailor admits she 'trespassed' into Iranian waters, there is fear in her eyes."
  • The cup-marked stone shown below, in the Sma’ Glen, near Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland, is situated in a large man-made concave-shaped amphitheatre in the hills, and has a prominent dumb-bell shaped cup-mark on its surface.
  • Dumbed-down Heidegger and a seeming praise of kinkiness became the Bible of the sixties and early postmodernism. May 30th, 2009
  • What is the most dumb-ass thing you ever did in your life?
  • Both the existing legislation on racism, and that adumbrated by the prime minister on the ‘preachers of hate’, have an illiberal potential - that is, they do restrict freedom of expression.
  • Physically and mentally disabled Beverley was deaf dumb and blind and weighed just four stone when she died.
  • With my mouth agape I shook her hand, dumbfounded.
  • … Every time he closed his eyes, her adumbrated silhouette burnt with inedible precision into his retina, bought back the pain he was trying to run from. Extending Your Vocabulary « Write Anything
  • Police have carried out tests on five bullets fired into Gray as he stopped to remove dumb-bells.
  • I think the ratio of dumb fucking student displaying true features of mongolism clearly outweighs the number of incompetent professors. The great education debate
  • Ultimately, this has made me a nicer, kinder, more tolerant person ... except to the dumbfucks but they all deserve to be autoclaved by accident. Personal evolution
  • Like the programme itself, the music has been dumbed down until it just about holds an essence of the original without any of the emotion.
  • I was dumbstruck and made my informant go over it twice more, both to make sure that I had got it right and to detect any special meanings hidden in any of the terms in question.
  • It is not the number of questions that is important, you dumbhead!
  • I will admit to being completely dumbstruck, which is a feat for me. Alien Encounter « The Life and Times of Organic Mama
  • In ways the hee-hee council was an adumbration of the councils of primitive man, and of the great national assemblies and international conventions of latter-day man. CHAPTER XIV
  • In three centuries, already some outline has been sketched, rudely adumbrating the future settlement destined for the planet, some infant castrametation has been marked out for the future encampment of nations. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843
  • Only dogmatic Darwin worshipers could be dumb enough to believe that these stalactites and stalagmites would know where to start growing so that eventually meet at a point, conjoin, become a pillar and hold the roof of the cave up. Rimstone Formation - The Panda's Thumb
  • Instead, given new life, the Jaguars took full advantage and won the game, leaving the Colts at 2-2 and second-guessers with a legitimate beef about Caldwell's dumbfounding, Jim Zorn-like clock management decision. Know when to fold 'em
  • End the movement with the dumbbell over your upper chest and with your pec muscles flexed as hard as possible.
  • Before I am struck dumb by incredulity, you might like to know that this test was carried out in the name of research into the theory that women sniff out ideal mates.
  • I remember playing this one on a dumb DEC terminal connected to a mainframe somewhere; I just can't remember what it was called.
  • Time to help dumbos like me and give out a small piece of probable text so at least a few of your prizes can be given out.
  • If I fail," and Warren was dumbfounded, even after the unreal scenes which had prologued this situation. The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play
  • The Melbourne Writers Centre is dominated by women who will only tolerate strangely docile feminised men, who build towards an androgyny and collaborate in a general ‘dumbing down’ of the male.
  • I favor lighter weights and dumbbells to develop balance, control and coordination.
  • His hosts are dumbstruck when their language is used against them with such slangy glee.
  • Our experience of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, directed by Landon Johnson for Vespertine Productions at The Flight Theatre at The Complex Theatres, is not so much that of a fly on a wall; a fly's buzz would unbalance Johnson's tersely orchestrated suspense tale of two hit men in a Birmingham basement. James Scarborough: Hollywood Fringe: The Dumb Waiter, Vespertine Productions & Girl Band in the Men's Room, Dirty Blonde Productions
  • As usual, the envy is largely baseless and dumb, but it's sticky and hard to shake.
  • Have the dumb Democrats, who think that just because the United States established war policies at the Nuremburg Trials, they must follow them; ever heard of the boxing technique called a feint punch or the legendary chess move called the "ghost knight gambit"? "War Crimes" Memos Questioned
  • They were struck dumb by some sort of shock.
  • If we proposed to kill a mass murderer, an enemy combatant/terrorist, or even a dumb animal by depriving them of food and water, we would be condemned as inhumane.
  • Mickey turned and looked at Jackie in dumbfounded amazement. Word Help Needed Please
  • I decided to act dumb.
  • So, you tell me if the following statement falls into the dumb-ass and nonsensical category: "Obama views not Iran, not North Korea, but America as the bad guy. Jason Salzman: Do Independent Voters Agree That Obama Thinks America Is Worse Than Iran?
  • He swallowed for a second, indecision crossing his face, before he decided to play dumb.
  • In short: He called the Cadbury deal "dumb;" she went ahead; he sold 33.1 million shares (a third of his 9.4% stake); she held her ground, and Kraft recently reported second-quarter revenue growth of 25.3%, largely due to the takeover. Get Briefed: Irene Rosenfeld
  • Dumb, cloddish things are announced grandly, as though they were meaningful observations about the human condition.
  • This grapefruit sized meatball is baked with melty mozzarella and tangy marinara, and when it arrives at the table, customers are dumbfounded.
  • If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. George Washington 
  • When I did no more than dumbly blink back he straightened and gave me a rather speculative look before finally breaking into a slow smirk.
  • The whole thing could almost be played as a dumbshow, with flourishes of grand guignol.
  • The mage was jittering nervously as Lushya simply stood there dumbfounded.
  • Hirst, as artist, curator and in his prime a cod philosopher of almost Warholian dumb articulacy, was the true author of British art's fame in the 1990s. The YBAs are over. Long live the OBAs!
  • Some dumbheads are everywhere, but the good outweigh the bad.
  • Looking visually back on the last three presidents, from the entitled jaws of Clinton to the dumb, glazed emptiness of Bush's head and eyes to the now-furious Obama, it is easier to find a worthwhile summer movie than a psychologically appropriate person to be our President. Dr. Cheryl Pappas: Obama: The Words and the Missing Actions
  • Just consider how the dumbest sports nuts remember every score.
  • a bear he was indeed, and a bear he would remain, at which speech poor young Esmond was so dumbstricken that he did not even growl. The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne
  • Aw," said Dumble, who had expected nothing, and was rather embarrassed than otherwise by their generosity, "thank 'ee kindly, sirs, and young leddies; there wasn't no' casion to give us nothing; but thank 'ee very much all the same, and' nother time we'll be glad to 'blige' ee with Kitty Trenire
  • It's harder to defend the property rights of those who are perceived to be dumb-ass dilettantes.
  • There is no distinction in India between deafness and deaf and dumbness and, because Ian can speak, they have trouble believing that he cannot hear.
  • And barbie, as usual, not bothering to read the script, gittin 'folksy, you betcha, and saying dumb stuff. McCain says he's no 'maverick'
  • Often they resorted to psychological trickery such as planting a seeming dumb boy to come as a suppliant to the temple and then to recover his voice.
  • My goodness – what will "tweedle dee and tweedle dumb" say this time? Palin, Bachmann to headline Tea Party convention
  • It's a good look at issues in organizational psychology, because it describes in detail how a lot of seemingly smart people worked together to accomplish a lot of dumb things.
  • Normally, I’d say condescending is a flaw, but if the audience is meant to find Mike dumb, I doubt that we’d hold condescension against her. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » SVT’s Review Forum
  • Yeh can 'take Dumbledore!" yelled Hagrid, making Fang the boarhound cower and whimper in his basket. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  • No-one has ever shown any net benefit to my knowledge - though there is plenty of evidence that it leads to dumbing down.
  • Golf is kind of like a sport - yet true sports shoes (like running shoes) look dumb sticking out from under the cuffs of regular trousers.
  • Some of the matters I have already adumbrated seem to me to bear upon that.
  • The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people. Stephen Hawking 
  • It is essentially just a dumb program spitting out information that it is given to pass on.
  • If the definition of "athleticism" is strictly about speedy movement then I would say you are right – the moon is athletic, the term is vacuous, and the argument is dumb. Bunny and a Book
  • Mr Bell's researches in electric telephony began with the artificial production of musical sounds, suggested by the work in which he was then engaged in Boston, viz., teaching the deaf and dumb to speak.
  • In Act I he stages first an allegorical masque, the chief theme of which is prudent distinction between tangible and intangible wealth or values, then a stately dumbshow of the Rape of Helen at which he himself confuses Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  • Last July, when Pan went to withdraw some money from the bank, he was dumbfounded to find that all the money in his US and Hong Kong dollar accounts had evaporated.
  • Sometimes, dumb-bell or ring-shaped mitochondria occur but with no evidence of associated membrane degeneration.
  • Allison also accuses the Bush administration of "dumbfounding" passivity in response to North Korea's weapons program, which experts identified as "a greater potential threat than Iraq" in the days after 9/11. EVERY REASON TO BE AFRAID
  • And I-- and let me jump in quick and say it is totally the lazification and the illusion and the teener bopperification and the dumbification of America. CNN Transcript Jun 14, 2009
  • In fact, Santorum is such a putz that he was once named the the dumbest member of Congress.
  • But there are times when I am struck dumb, either because I am extremely uncomfortable or because, unusually, I have nothing to say.
  • I think Jessica is a pretty woman who genuinely means well, but she's dumb as a rock. Axelrod: I'm not thinking about Palin's next move

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