Not at all sharp

Usage examples of stupid.

But owing to the stupid money system, which these laborers them selves help to keep in force, the results of their combined efforts were either usurped by an unproductive class fortunate enough to be born rich, or those shrewd enough to accumulate money, such as trust managers, bankers, real estate speculators, stock jobbers, and brokers, gamblers, burglars, money loan swindlers, high salaried clergymen, etc.

But the profession affecting directly the health and life of every human body, which needs to avail itself of the accumulated experience, knowledge, and science of all the ages, is open to every ignorant and stupid practitioner on the credulity of the public.

While the populace gazed with stupid wonder on the splendid show, the naturalist might indeed observe the figure and properties of so many different species, transported from every part of the ancient world into the amphitheatre of Rome.

It was a stupid dog, could not even read an autocue, which way why some people had protested about its name, but it should at least have been able to recognize Arthur instead of standing there, hackles raised, as if Arthur was the most fearful apparition ever to intrude upon its feeble-witted life.

Then the cow was standing, stock-still, blind-still, too stupid to graze, too balkish to collapse, less anlinate than a stone cow.

Murgatroyd, the mate, was the only man on board in whose honesty Kettle had the least faith, simply because he considered him too stupid to be intrusted with any operation so delicate as barratry, and to Murgatroyd he more or less confided his intentions.

Often when I have got stupid and bearish from loneliness, I wish I could talk to some one so happily constituted.

Henceforth, I desire to live upon a flat with never a hill in sight, amidst honest folk as stupid as their own sheep, who go to church on Sundays and get drunk, not with hachich, but on brown ale, brought to them by no white-robed sorceress, but by a draggle-tailed wench in a tavern, with her musty bedstraw still sticking in her hair.

He had always taken pride in being smart, but he had shown himself to be exceedingly stupid where Blaise was concerned.

So you can paste it in your tall silk hat, Mayn, that the Planetsmen are free men, not brainless stupid serfs.

Banks and Brimmer for compromising the vessel: of that stupid, drunken captain for permitting it.

A dim gray hint of morning in the rectangle of my window cannot pale the hypnogogic phantoms that dance in the dark corners of my room, mocking me for the stupid account I have written.

Compared with the senseless brutality of Wirz, the reckless deviltry of Davis, or the stupid malignance of Barrett, at Florence, his administration was mildness and wisdom itself.

Saltzman was the first non-Italian Lo Manto had ever met, a deeply religious man who ate cottage cheese every day for lunch and laughed at his own rendition of stupid jokes.

In a manner Marcie thought looked incredibly stupid, the woman rapidly blinked her wide, round eyes several times.