Inane

Usage examples of dumb.

So he ran a program to see if he could connect to any of the services running on that computer, and found an open port with a Telnet service running, which allows one computer to connect remotely to another computer and access it as if directly connected using a dumb terminal.

One evening, being in the box of Le Vasseur, the performance was composed of a tragedy in which a very handsome actress had the part of a dumb priestess.

I dont know why Im dumb agen or what I did wrong maybe its becaus I dint try hard enuff.

He was no dumb tyrannosaur, he was Frikkie Van Alman, head of Oilstar, man of adventure.

For Berel Jastrow these rotten remains possess all the sad sacred sweetness of the dead: poor cold silent mechanisms, once warm happy creatures sparkling with life, now dumb and motionless without the spark of God in them, but destined one day in His good time to rise again.

The guid beuk forbids fornication with human beings and bestiality with sheep and other dumb brutes, but it says nocht about wimbling with extra-terrestrial hominoids.

As for the dumb bimbo image, you have got to give her credit for two successful businesses.

From the mountebanks point of view a pretty little deaf and dumb daughter, who could work miracles on the blackboard, was a treasure to a practical mind.

Oh, what blinkards are we gentlemen, to train any dumb beasts more carefully than we do Christians!

When the boat shoved off and puttered up the channel towards the labour camp on the nearest island, Sebastian looked back at Blucher with the same dumb stare as the men who squatted beside him on the floorboards of the whaler.

She was deaf and dumb till Emilie came and asked us why we were so dull.

Something else he remembered from Cimmaron came from that direction: the collective sound of multitudes of dumb, doomed animals.

Perhaps I might not remember the exact words of a sentence, but I was at liberty to replace them by other expressions as good, and as I never happened to be at a loss, or to be struck dumb, when I spoke in society, it was not likely that such an untoward accident would befall me before an audience amongst whom I did not know anyone who could intimidate me and cause me suddenly to lose the faculty of reason or of speech.

The crystals are composed of oxalate of lime and appear in the different forms shown in the five sections, of octahedral, decahedral, round and dumb bell shapes.

Uncle Vernon furiously, but dumbledore raised his ringer for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.