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- adjective
stupid ,foolish
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Examples
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Thank you, midasear, “dunderheaded” is an understatement.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Virginia “Confederate History Month” Proclamation 2010
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The idea that slavery would have gone away peacefully on its own, “like it did everywhere else”, is one of the most ahistorical and dunderheaded ideas put forward by Confederate apologists.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Virginia “Confederate History Month” Proclamation 2010
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When we meet Wikus van der Merwe (Copley), he seems an officious and rather dunderheaded civil servant, at times resembling The Office's Michael Scott.
Heart-pumping, alien-laden 'District 9' is sci-fi at its finest 2009
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In speaking of Obama in early 2007, Joe Biden framed those expectations with dunderheaded clarity.
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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As well as being a convenient way to differentiate themselves from the dunderheaded tabloid-reading masses.
Patrick Hayes: IstyOsty: The Website That Allows the Twitterati to Have a Guilt-Free Two Minute Hate Patrick Hayes 2011
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In speaking of Obama in early 2007, Joe Biden framed those expectations with dunderheaded clarity.
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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In my various capacities over the last 10 years, I've spoken out on a number of occasions against what I'd like to generally call dunderheaded comments made by a number of people, including Brian Kilmeade at FOX and Friends, comparing inter-marriage to inter-species relationships; Sean Delonas at the New York Post drawing a cartoon implying the author of stimulus legislation was a crazed money; and of course Don Imus.
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In my various capacities over the last 10 years, I've spoken out on a number of occasions against what I'd like to generally call dunderheaded comments made by a number of people, including Brian Kilmeade at FOX and Friends, comparing inter-marriage to inter-species relationships; Sean Delonas at the New York Post drawing a cartoon implying the author of stimulus legislation was a crazed money; and of course Don Imus.
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In my various capacities over the last 10 years, I've spoken out on a number of occasions against what I'd like to generally call dunderheaded comments made by a number of people, including Brian Kilmeade at FOX and Friends, comparing inter-marriage to inter-species relationships; Sean Delonas at the New York Post drawing a cartoon implying the author of stimulus legislation was a crazed money; and of course Don Imus.
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As well as being a convenient way to differentiate themselves from the dunderheaded tabloid-reading masses.
Patrick Hayes: IstyOsty: The Website That Allows the Twitterati to Have a Guilt-Free Two Minute Hate Patrick Hayes 2011
yarb commented on the word dunderheaded
"He regarded it as a mixture of jealousy and dunderheaded prejudice."
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
February 21, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word dunderheaded
This has to be one of the best adjectives ever coined.
February 21, 2008