dunce

If you do think that he could, please step forward and claim your complimentary dunce cap, and infuse it with your own naivete.

From Salon ● May 5, 2023

Recall children in dunce caps, perjurers in pillories, adulterers branded with scarlet letters.

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2022

Now he’s the guy who sat on that bar stool in Columbus, the bully who berated his kicker, the dunce who thought Andre Cisco was playing when he wasn’t.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2021

In my view, the biggest mistake scientists make is to claim that this is all somehow simple and therefore to imply that anyone who doesn't get it is a dunce.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 8, 2021

There’s a head wearing a dunce hat and “Ally” is written underneath.

From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

You there, yes you, the one sitting in seat 11E; you’re no better than the doomed dunces coming to see this production of “Fossil Fools.”

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

People who say L.A. has no seasons are unobservant dunces.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2021

The internet abets the problem, he says: Unfiltered by editors, it levels the playing field between experts and "dunces."

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 2, 2020

The appeal of getting to play one of Sandler’s dunces was so great that it attracted former cast members Jimmy Fallon and Kristen Wiig, neither of whose time on the show overlapped with Sandler’s:

From Slate ● May 5, 2019

“You are dunces, both of you, believing that rot,” I say.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone