dumb cluck

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Noun
  • My dad has always said the lottery is a tax on the stupid.
    Alex Crippen, CNBC, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The scale of the headloss was best summed up by Luis Suarez attempting to reason with Messi, before the Argentine did anything on the Suarez scale of stupid.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Mantzoukas was willing to look like a maniac and a moron in equal measure.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 17 June 2026
  • Lluís then calls Puig Antich a moron.
    Colm Tóibín, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • What began as conceptual satire about know-nothing critics with nothing to say became, Heidecker believes, more about the democratization of entertainment and the last days of Hollywood reverence.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2026
  • That said, what’s more insufferable—a skeptical know-it-all or a proud know-nothing?
    Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 13 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Don’t forget my sister’s advice: Ample space to run, roam, and cluck freely is the key to keeping happy, healthy chickens that lay daily.
    Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 May 2026
  • In Threes, builds its sentences from splats, crashes, clucks, clinks, whooshes, and thuds.
    Shaad D’Souza, Pitchfork, 20 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • If the eventual outcome hadn’t been so tragic, and if one of the people involved hadn’t been an absolute imbecile, and if there hadn’t been a dearth of actual romance, their meeting would have made for good romantic fiction.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Insulting this imbecile became the most rewarding pastime on earth.
    Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Back in 1848, being called a goose was like being called a dunderhead.
    Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 26 June 2024
  • But don't be too quick to write off these tiny critters as dunderheads.
    Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023
Noun
  • If your energy dips, take a brief stretch, then return to the task with a lighter touch and clearer purpose.
    Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2026
  • At his beach house in the Hamptons, Andy Cohen begins and ends every day with a dip.
    Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • Oscillating between a bumbling brute and an ironic ignoramus, Marvel Studios sees the God of Thunder more like the God of Blunder, kicking out the knees of the steady 2011 film in favour of single-digit IQ humour.
    Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 6 May 2026
  • And yet Danielle is currently playing The Traitors so poorly — making big, sloppy, conspicuous moves, alienating potential allies, and fancying herself an Oscar-winning actress while displaying community-center theatrics — that even scene-stealing ignoramus Tom Sandoval has taken notice.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
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“Dumb cluck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dumb%20cluck. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.

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