Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Stupidity; doltishness.
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Examples
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With each petty theft, incompetence, and brazen act of dullardism, his anger rises.
Outrages 2008
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Incompetence, bungling, dullardism, and daft accounting are acceptable to the activists who administer taxspending, so they should be acceptable to taxpayers, too.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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When taxpayers complain about incompetence, bungling, dullardism, and daft accounting, remind them of why they fork over 55 percent of their income ... to alleviate guilt.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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In order to respect the ennoblement of incompetence and inefficiency by our multi-cultural elite (state dullardism), entries for The Worlds Five Greatest Statists have been extended.
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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"But," objected young Bansted Downs, "under your system, dullardism paying so well, everybody would want to cater for the public, and there wouldn't be any audience -- any public."
The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various 1880
qms commented on the word dullardism
“Oh, mirror,” he asked, “Dost thou wist
If better than I could exist?”
The dun-colored prism
Of his dullardism
Showed only his face in the mist.
September 12, 2018