[ UK /dˈʌns/ ]
NOUN
  1. a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence
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How To Use dunce In A Sentence

  • If this dunce is the “Ultimate Troll” … does that mean once he’s banned, TP will be troll free? Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 23, 2010
  • Floppers should have to sit out a game with a dunce hat on.
  • If the agency is willing to employ such airheads at their office, what kind of dunces do you think they'd employ for your client?
  • When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by his sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. 
  • ‘I was branded a dunce, without question,’ he says.
  • Bretz was called a dunce and a heretic, but over time his work became widely accepted.
  • Hmm, "nonce," "chiaroscuro," and "purlieu" were the only ones I knew -- and I agree with elck that 3 out of 18 definitely equates to duncehood. Languagehat.com: BEAT THE JUDGE.
  • This is like someone selling you a dunce-quality hayrick and you not knowing any better. The Volokh Conspiracy » Posner on Consumer Financial Protection Paternalism:
  • Or, put another way, the elections were a success and a great moral victory; but the ideas that led up to them were the purest examples of bone-headed bungling; and the man who thought them all up was a dunce.
  • This was all done while wearing face paint, dunce caps, misfitting overalls, and bright yellow wigs. Boing Boing
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