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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dimwit
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Don't let that dimwit Larry near my computer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Everyone knows that ducks are dimwits.
▪ Jones and Cook were simply likeable dimwits.
▪ Shore actually plays the smarter of two dimwits who mistakenly lock themselves in a Biosphere-type isolation experiment.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dimwit

also dim-wit, U.S. college slang by 1922, from dim (adj.) + wit (n.). Related: dimwitted.

Wiktionary
dimwit

n. (context pejorative English) A person who is deficient in intelligence.

WordNet
dimwit

n. a stupid incompetent person [syn: nitwit, half-wit, doofus]

Usage examples of "dimwit".

Bloom snorted disgustedly, feeling outraged that a dimwit Wop of a buckass private should have money for icecream while the corporals went broke.

What kind of a knuckleheaded dimwit drove down a private drive like the flames of hell licked at their heels?

By the end of first period I knew that Bo Michaels, a big, good-looking dimwit, was going to be a thorn in my side as he burned up excess energy by being class clown.

I know more drum mea sures than any of those dimwits, for all they've been muck ing about up there for Turns!

One of the few things that would get Tom Stone really pissed was hearing people make fun of dimwits, even if he didn't like the dimwits himself.

Their bodies—large, handsome things—originated in an exceedingly dimwitted race.

Vrakk heard one rather dimwitted merchant proclaim, "then the church has got to be as powerful as they say.

She adopted the facade of unquestioning, somewhat dimwitted loyalty she used whenever she was in Cyric's presence.

Under the circumstances, with the city and port besiegedalbeit mildly sothe king dimwitted and most ill-reded, but a true, old-time fire-eater to suicidal extremes, I was afforded but three options, namely: to take you and your people aboard with me and mine and sail away, forfeiting the city and port and all to the Ard-Righ (whenever he got back to take it).

He would tell her which stocks were up or down, and who had been elected, as if he were reading a list from a fairly dimwitted periodical—with none of the meat behind the facts.

They allow the dimwit to join in their gambles, and before long he has won, on paper, a small fortune.

He wanted to gloat over it, to show me how much smarter and stronger he was than I, to rub my nose in the fact that he was going to go down to the surface and claim the prize money while I sat up here in Lucifer like a hapless, helpless dimwit.