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The company is run by a bunch of dullards. often mistaken for a dullard because he never said much in discussions

Recent Examples on the Web Moreover, that dullard of a husband, Richard (the late Don Galloway, who later in life wrote a libertarian newspaper column), is the secret hero of the film. — Kyle Smith, National Review, 7 Apr. 2021 Perhaps, but like his dullard son-in-law who’s trying to split the vote by putting a troubled rapper on the ballot, the president playing a song in recognizable Republican chords. — Adam Weinstein, The New Republic, 18 Aug. 2020 April 7, 2020 The same goes for clueless, kilt-wearing dullard Sidney (Tim Key); Amanda’s aggressively insecure boyfriend, Chaz (Allan Mustafa); and the gabby, tactless Rebecca (Aisling Bea). — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2020 Yet, the film waves off character development and merely side-eyes its frustrations with capitalism in its rush to convince us that this dullard is in fact a supervillain who is game to manipulate, maim and poison for a marble firepit. — Amy Nicholson, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2020 All the characters, from the callow manipulators to the well-meaning dullards, are awash in cliché. — Susanna Lee, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 2020 There are cheapskates galore, dissemblers, busybodies, dullards and charlatans. — A.e. Stallings, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2018 Usually the equal-weight S&P does better, as smaller members of the index outperform the dullards at the top. — James Mackintosh, WSJ, 14 June 2018 Fishes have long been dismissed as dullards, but new observations and studies are proving this assumption wrong. — Jonathan Balcombe, Scientific American, 1 May 2017 See More

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