Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person who is felt to be deficient in judgment, good sense, or intelligence; a fool.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person of limited or feeble intelligence; a foolish or silly person.
- noun The American dunlin, purre, or ox-bird. See cut under
dunlin .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person of weak intellect; a silly person.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pejorative A
simple personlacking common sense .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person lacking intelligence or common sense
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And it means you engage in simpleton, “just world” thinking.
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But now when an Egyptian simpleton is tortured by the hands of a Libyan officer - a government representative - in an official police station for a prolonged period of time with the intention of torture and homicide, and when the guy is shipped back in a pile to spend the rest of his life incapacitated - when all of that happens, will we see thousands of Islamists demonstrating in his defense?
Global Voices in English » Egypt: What’s good for the goose is NOT good for the gander 2009
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And it means you engage in simpleton, “just world” thinking.
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A certain simpleton was once walking along, haling his ass after him by the halter, when a pair of sharpers saw him and one said to his fellow, “I will take that ass from yonder wight.”
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Because, as Mr. DeVito makes abundantly clear, there are and always have been two Yogi Berras: 1) the public celebrity — a goofy, good-natured, strange-looking (sportswriters at the time used far-worse adjectives), malaprop-spewing simpleton from the Italian slums of St. Louis and 2) the real person behind the public persona, a far more complex and intelligent character.
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In D. C.'s power corridors, he's known as a simpleton, but in reality he's much more dangerous.
David Bourgeois: GOP Senate Candidate Ron Johnson: Pure Plastic David Bourgeois 2010
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But it seems fitting that one of the most ardent supporters of a simpleton is a simpleton.
Think Progress » BREAKING: McCain Reaches Agreement With Bush On Military Tribunals 2006
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No, you arrogant simpleton, that isn't just the way it is.
08/21/2006 2006
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One is called a simpleton when one demands that oaths be held sacred; our crimes are nameless.
PRIMITIVISM GEORGE BOAS 1968
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It was not the first time that she had been called a simpleton, or some kindred name, by the out-spoken Miss
Be Courteous or, Religion, the True Refiner Mrs. M. H. Maxwell
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Citation on sharper.
September 18, 2008