Dim bulb, so to speak

Usage examples of dullard.

My goodness, for having proclaimed Lord Wykham a dullard, Catherine certainly seemed interested in spending time in his company.

It had taken all his strength to continue acting the stupid dullard, to hide his unbounding excitement over the secrets, which, fantastically, promised the long-hoped-for reprieve.

If I have a weakness for you, do not make me into a dullard because of it.

Only in dramatic literature do we find the devastating tradition of blank verse still lingering, giving factitious prestige to the platitudes of dullards, and robbing the dramatic style of the genuine poet of its full natural endowment of variety, force and simplicity.

You will use the means that I prescribe and your continued calmness will go far to convince even these dullards that they have been wrong.

After a spirited debate with a genderless dullard regarding my lack of a receipt versus my willingness to stand there all night and argue, I proffered money for a packet of prints.

Your error grew of over-generous dreams, And misbeliefs by dullard ministers.

The diatribes by liberals like Chait, who not only hated Bush but also ridiculed him as a dullard.

Now it also seems to me that he who dreams is more awake than he who sleeps, and that he who spends a third part of his life in utter unconsciousness better deserves to be called a sleepyhead and dullard, than he for whom the dark nights are also vivid and rich with pulsing life.

Your error grew of over-generous dreams, And misbeliefs by dullard ministers.

For a long time it was assumed that big brains and upright walking were directly related—that the movement out of the forests necessitated cunning new strategies that fed off of or promoted braininess—so it was something of a surprise, after the repeated discoveries of so many bipedal dullards, to realize that there was no apparent connection between them at all.

The men, pitching forward insanely, had burst into cheerings, moblike and barbaric, but tuned in strange keys that can arouse the dullard and the stoic.

The dullards at the National Endowment for the Arts, a sister "sleeper" government agency that should be defunded, agreed that "Piss Christ" was art and wrote a check for 15,000 of your tax dollars to pay this derelict for his efforts.

For the masters were the usual mixed bag, ranging from men of genuine learning, wide experience of life, bravery in war or something else that made them worthy of admiration, to dullards who drudged efficiently through the same lessons year after year, clods untroubled by a spark.

The Dullards came in with Adam, and being both numerous and sturdy have overrun the habitable world.