variants or clodpole

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for clodpoll
Noun
  • Now, researchers at Switzerland's ETH Zurich are putting these mechanical mutts through their paces on the badminton court, teaching them to play about as well as a seven-year-old human.
    Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The Soviet Sputnik 5 carried mutts Belka and Strelka, 40 mice and two rats.
    Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The oldest brother gets the mill, the middle a donkey, and the youngest a cat.
    Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Barker Sternberg and her husband, Andy Sternberg, have five donkeys and one horse at their Lone Jack farm.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • So, the parallel thing that I’ve been frustrated by recently is not just calling Trump stupid, but calling Trump voters stupid.
    Drew Broussard May 22, Literary Hub, 22 May 2025
  • Sometimes too stupid is actually smartski but sometimes is just stupid stupid.
    Caroline Downey, National Review, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Made from the fatty liver of a duck or goose, most foie gras production faces accusations of force-feeding the animals.
    Meredith Kile, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The short’s synopsis reads: After the death of her husband, Janet decides to distract herself by rearing a goose, which is to be the centrepiece of her Christmas dinner.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Perrotta’s dark and wry comedy is about a suburban New Jersey high school election, between the ambitious and qualified but wholly unlikeable Tracy Flick, popular dim bulb Paul, and Paul’s sister, Tammy, who runs as revenge against Paul for stealing her girlfriend.
    Brian Boone, Vulture, 18 June 2025
  • Such stellar dim bulbs are critical for determining the lowest-mass end of the initial mass function.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • Then there are those who rage against their children’s accomplishments, clinging to the hierarchy agreed upon when the child was a helpless know-nothing.
    Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Lewis’s superficial attack abets the know-nothing Trump Administration, which spurns cooperative allies and rational arrangements.
    Harper’s Magazine, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • Besides the ubiquitous beer, there’s bratwurst, turkey legs, sausage, sauerkraut, pretzels and more.
    Laura Daily, Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Most cold cuts – even diet staples like turkey – are UPFs.
    Andrea Margolis , Peter Burke, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Seth Rollins gassed Bron up by saying Jey Uso thinks his dad is a loser and his uncle is a moron.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
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“Clodpoll.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clodpoll. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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