How To Use Dunce In A Sentence
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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
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Floppers should have to sit out a game with a dunce hat on.
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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?
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by his sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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‘I was branded a dunce, without question,’ he says.
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Bretz was called a dunce and a heretic, but over time his work became widely accepted.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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This was all done while wearing face paint, dunce caps, misfitting overalls, and bright yellow wigs.
Boing Boing
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by his sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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I know for a fact that I sound like a complete dunce when I leave my number, which takes twice as long as it should because I fail to plan ahead and have to wrack my brain for the Spanish translation of every digit.
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My flaky judgments were modest by comparison-but numerous enough to keep me hopeful of regaining the dunce cap this year.
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But depression returned when we kept thinking it was dominated by ignorant dunces.
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Now, before we question her judgment, she may well have been surrounded by dunces her entire life.
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Michael may have been a dunce at mathematics, but he was gifted at languages.
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In other words, a dunce is ... a hyper-specialized professor, the very same type of person graduate schools tend to churn out intentionally.
Pope and the Canon
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In his early days, even the Master of Crime was a dunce.
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Only it was turnip-hudded dunce, I beg your pardon, and he would jokes bowlder — blow the betholder with his black masket off the bawling green. —
Finnegans Wake
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Even a complete dunce with absolutely no sense of social rank and cliques would know that a guy like Matt should never go to a party hosted by my sister.
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Fred ♪ ♫ ♪ says: hr is not a profession honey. you are such a dunce.
Think Progress » College debate organizers unable to find any law professors to argue health reform is unconstitutional.
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He has also been called a dunce, an ignoramus, a barbarian.
Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation
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Still more qualified than ever than sarah palin half term governor making around $100,000/year and then dumping her state and people to go make 12 million last year ... apparently palin an addictive college dropout/switcher is more qualified than a Harvard constituitional law professor, and senator .... and you wonder why Democrats think the average Republican is a Dunce!!!
Obama tours, praises ethanol plant
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He is beaten, spit upon and forced to wear a dunce cap.
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I watched bush mutilate the english language, lie, make sht up, and just be himself for eight years (freakin dunce).
Think Progress » GOP Senate Candidate Rep. Mike Castle Takes Credit For Over $5 Million In Stimulus Funds He Voted To Kill
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Pumpkin Bill, the dunce of the boomer's camp, "a nobody from nowhar," to use Cal Clemmer's words, came rushing along, hatless and with his wild eyes fairly starting from their sockets.
The Boy Land Boomer Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by his sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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“You, icy sweetness of strawberry, chocolate or vanilla, melting, stickily into your inverted dunce cap, ravisher of appetites, leading the younger generation from the straight and narrow paths of spinach, pilferer of the pennies that might go to make a fortune; destroyer of the peace of homes, instrument of bribery and reward of virtue.”
One Big Table
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A flatterer is a dunce to him, for he can tell him nothing but what he knows before: and yet he loves him too, because he is like himself.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
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To the foolish fop who dared to defend my honor at Maud's, let it be known that I am a proud crank, a consummate dunce, and run such a fever that neither a team of doctors nor infinite cases of quinine can stop me from babbling like a raving loon.
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The warhead shown in the schematics had the familiar "dunce cap" shape of the original North Korean No Dong missile, which Iran had acquired in the mid-1990s.
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by his sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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The warhead shown in the schematics had the familiar "dunce cap" shape of the original North Korean No Dong missile, which Iran had acquired in the mid-1990s.
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by his sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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Anyone who has not yet grasped this fact deserves to wear the dunce's cap - Valéry Giscard, President of the EU Convention, speech in Aachen accepting the Charlemagne Prize for European integration, 29th May 2003.
Archive 2008-06-01
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Milton had postponed his poem, in 1641, till "the land had once enfranchished herself from this impertinent yoke of prelatry, under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish.
Milton
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I believe it will take generations to get over the duncery of slavery.
Iola Leroy, Or Shadows Uplifted.
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Recall the dunce caps and public confessions of the Cultural Revolution error.
Female Chinese Land Seizure Protesters Stripped Naked & Jailed
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The question then becomes: What was this confederacy of dunces doing to earn its massive paydays?
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Milton was kept from politics in his youth, not by any notion of their incompatibility with poetry; but by the more cogent arguments at their command "under whose inquisitious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish.
Life of John Milton
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This year, the unitard is basically a "dunce" outfit that says "I'm with stupid" on the front of it.
Big Brother Recap: Veto Competition/Ceremony 6
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The advertiser also takes us to be such dunces in whose heads he has to ram his message again and again.
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And I think I can say, with all fairness, that the management thinks I'm a dunce.
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_Moor_, and _More_: and when he says that his good nature towards the dunces was so great that he had even "rhymed for Moor" (Ib.v. 373.), I cannot but suspect that the Moor _for_ whom he had _rhymed_, was the
Notes and Queries, Number 49, October 5, 1850
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For every liberal dunce, there is a conservative dunce.
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They did, however, place a headpiece on her head that resembled a dunce cap.
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This was done at his return from the little paltry town, even then when Master Antitus of Cressplots was licentiated, and had passed his degrees in all dullery and blockishness, according to this sentence of the canonists, Beati Dunces, quoniam ipsi stumblaverunt.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2
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If we're paying for two failed stadiums as the years roll on Randy, Sam and Dan will be in dunce caps in their official portraits.
Before Henry Merritt and Charles Randy's New York honeymoon (Jack Bog's Blog)
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Theologian John Duns Scots was no dunce, but his followers the Dunsmen got a reputation as hair-splitting pinheads, and soon "Duns" morphed into "dunce.
GOOD
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by his sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by his sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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I tell you, Aunt 'Becca, he's a Whig, and no mistake; nobody but a Whig could make such a conceity dunce of himself.
The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843
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The ever popular "Manipulative Mommy" scenario ala Bates has the film's plot thinning by the moment, with the utterly useless inclusion of a love tale between a dunce of a deputy and his "gurl".
DVD Review - Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by his sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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He is a great discomforter of young students, by telling them what travel it has cost him, and how often his brain turned at philosophy, and makes others fear studying as a cause of duncery.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
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Regrettably, this means that the following people are dunces: the editorial board of the Oxford English Dictionary, John Milton [cited in OED], Charles Dickens [in Martin Chuzzlewit], and John Bunyan [in Pilgrim's Progress].
What’s the deal with further and farther? « Motivated Grammar
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When he changed his school to Brighton, his reputation as a dunce followed him.
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Last Saturday, a tabloid published a mock-up picture of him wearing a dunce's cap.
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Far from being instinct-driven dunces held back by a three-second memory, fish were cunning, manipulative, cultured and socially aware.
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Honestly, what kind of dunce criminal would decide to not burglarize some place just because the radio is on and playing some light jazz?
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The only thing remarkable about the exchange is McCain's feigned linguistic duncery.
General Election Alert: McCain Mocks Obama Over Iraq
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(humorously) a dunce cap, its fundamental group is its set of path loops that has a useful characteristic known as "[[homotopy]]
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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As a reward, best-performing authorities will get greater financial freedom while the dunces face the threat of external intervention to sort them out.
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‘mammetry’ or idolatry; ‘dunce’ is from Duns Scotus; while there is a legend that the ‘knot’ or sandpiper is named from Canute or Knute, with whom this bird was a special favourite.
English Past and Present
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The prose is clear enough that a math dunce like me can grasp it, and the superhero examples are enough, I think, to interest even someone who already knows physics.
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A maths 'citizenship test' may sound eccentric, but the margin between duncery and genius can be a mere decimal place.
Times, Sunday Times
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by his sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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But then people stopped wearing dunces-caps in the towns because it came to be seen as a sign of a provincial, a peasant.
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by his sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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A dunce, according to the dictionary, is "one who is slow-witted or stupid."
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by his sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by his sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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Far from being instinct-driven dunces held back by a three-second memory, fish were cunning, manipulative, cultured and socially aware.
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Within these pages, she will once again regale you with her unique vision, her misanthropy, and her general intolerance of slack-jawed, drooling dunces.
Roseanne Archy
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But it is too much that the benefactors of mankind, after having been reviled by the dunces of their own generation for going too far, should be reviled by the dunces of the next generation for not going far enough.
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Books assigned in school (with a few puzzling exceptions) were the most contemptible of all, since those dunces, our teachers, had heard of them.
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When it was time to leave primary school to start secondary school, it was a huge relief, when mercifully, Anthony was placed in what was known as the dunce's class and it was only the odd occasion when they bumped into each other.
Archive 2007-07-01
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I feel like a dunce in this company, until I get talking to some of my mates in the group who share a lot of my frustrations and aspirations, and are a holy if unruly group.
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by his sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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Master Antitus of Cressplots was licentiated, and had passed his degrees in all dullery and blockishness, according to this sentence of the canonists, Beati Dunces, quoniam ipsi stumblaverunt.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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I'm such a dunce walking into a stupid place like this but its not like they could identify me.
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Bozo The Neoclown says: ooohhhhh, dunce power, still waiting for you to answer my questions. spin ballerina, spin all around!
Think Progress » ThinkFast: February 16, 2010
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Park and his partner continue to thuggishly interrogate the local townsmen, attempting to pin the crime on the local town dunce, while Seo formulates a plan to outthink the serial killer using logic and intuitive deduction.
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Plus, I'm a total dunce - I didn't even realise that ‘surprise party’ noise was a cock-up.
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People with a political grudge couldn’t stop themselves from hyping it into something sinister or, at best, evidence of duncery.
Damn them « BuzzMachine
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Horace Walpole is no dunce, not a fibre of him is duncish.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
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Retired as I am and chuse to be, from public employ - ment, I sincerely wish for the honour & benefit of my country to see the day when none but such as are best qualified, both by abilities & integrity, shall fill those departments which are now possessed by dunces, frib - blers, and coxcombs.
Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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Such abuse of language is possible only to the drivelling desperation of venomous or fangless duncery: it is in higher and graver matters, of wider bearing and of deeper import, that we find it necessary to dispute the apparently serious propositions or assertions of Mr. Whistler.
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
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Luckily, the system fell apart when the head of this confederacy of dunces was lopped from the shoulders.
Top Ten Movie Villains of All Time | Heretical Ideas Magazine
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But he lacks one thing and that is complete control within City Hall which could ultimately send him to the dunce's chair whispers confidentially which is currently occupied by one Mr. Meat.
Cap'n Crunch Gives Mayor's Report A "D"
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Walter Scott was all but a dunce when a boy, always much readier for a "bicker," than apt at his lessons.
Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance
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Michael may have been a dunce at mathematics, but he was gifted at languages.
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In the olden days if you were a dunce in class, you were made to stand at the back of the class, enduring unimaginable embarrassment.
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Whatever grand claims spin-doctors make of their fabled and bewitching powers, they can no more teach a dunce to run the Department for Education than make a marquee the most exciting destination of the new millennium.
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Milton was kept from politics in his youth, not by any notion of their incompatibility with poetry; but by the more cogent arguments at their command “under whose inquisitious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish.”
Life of John Milton
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But the film redeems itself when the mustached protagonist, formerly such a complacent dunce, has alien-ness thrust upon him and has to deal with the new hatreds that come with it.
WATCHING: District 9
