What is "nitwit"

Usage examples of "nitwit".

Taking into account that Colton Wyndham was no addlebrained nitwit, Adriana had no recourse but to believe he had deliberately dismissed her earlier suggestion.

I might also remind you, silly snob that you are, that she is not only accepted by those ridiculous nitwits in so-called high society, whom you have the desire to kowtow to constantly, but is assiduously courted by them.

But could she, despite her patent unenthusiasm, leave these nitwits to muddle along on their own, and abandon Cristin to the loathesome-sounding Eleazar Hyde, and Percy to the tender mercies of Innis Ashley, who would doubtless see him ruined?

I had to sit out there with him while he dragged me through the whole thing again, Father getting furious when he saw that lower court decision where Mudpye put one over on that stupid woman judge and what fools we were not to spot the trap they laid for us letting us sue in district court here instead of California preempting the Federal statutes and getting it in under New York law and not even following through with an appeal, what kind of nitwits were my lawyers anyhow?

He behaved with more maturity than this nitwit spouting agitprop at him in his own flat, a decently-kept place, unlike Louie's bug-infested rubbish dump in Chalk Farm.

Nothing makes a good technical man angrier than to have some incompetent nitwit with a check book telling him how to do his job.

Hannah had always kept it spotless, treated the furniture as though it were her own, a fastidious and thoughtful girl, so Theda wanted to see what damage the nitwits had done and be sure that the landlord didn't try to blame it on Hannah.

What on earth were those nitwits trying to prove, scrawling on the walls?

Theda had not informed the band of loud, rude, window-shattering nitwits about Hannah's mention of Carmel.

Those nitwits who wait for somebody to save them are as good as dead anyhow.

They'd come full circle, back to a scruffy group of nitwits and a comedy of misidentification and miscommunication.

It seems beyond belief that careless nitwits could spend this kind of dough and claim not to know about it.

Fifty thousand pounds our esteemed father-in-law was proposing to settle upon that half-baked, nitwitted little slypuss.

Fifi was such a nitwitted little sweetykins, and they were bothered all the time they were in Siberian exile about how she would get along in big wicked New York.

Or (more difficult still since humanity and engineers in special are both nitwitted and malicious as a rule) that it could have been put to rational uses — if any.