dumb cluck

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dumb cluck
Noun
  • Sometimes too stupid is actually smartski but sometimes is just stupid stupid.
    Caroline Downey, National Review, 27 Mar. 2025
  • An underrated gem — not enough people have seen this top-tier season — Squirrels Trip has some fabulous vocals, very funny lyrics, a heavy dose of stupid, and an engaging story.
    Barry Levitt, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The brand was founded by Antony Buck and Robert Calcraft and positioned itself in the naturals category, which by the time of its acquisition had become among the fastest-growing skin care segments globally.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 1 May 2025
  • The main focus is Divine G (Colman Domingo), a talented performer and playwright who has been falsely imprisoned, but the movie’s power comes from its ensemble made up of actual RTA alumni who are naturals on camera.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 18 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • After the know-nothing county board opts to raze the baseball diamond to make way for a school, the teams meet for one final game at their beloved Soldier’s Field, with girlfriends, kids, and local hooligans as intermittent spectators.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Even as Republicans embrace him as an iconoclast, Democrats and other critics have lambasted Kennedy as a know-nothing without the scientific or bureaucratic experience to do the job effectively.
    Dylan Scott, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Noun
  • This leads us to the crux...or perhaps the clucks...of my story.
    Phil Kafarakis, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
  • Chickens run and cluck around the Bennet home; the family’s clothes look worn, at times even dirty; the houses are cluttered, the people messy, their interactions chaotic.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy.
    Sam Sacks, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2016
  • Hard to accept that these imbeciles represent the people in our government.
    Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2016
Noun
  • The worker who gets on the AI train learns to ask the right questions, and the numbskull of a skilled worker does not.
    Tressie McMillan Cottom, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Scott, likewise, packs his divisive prequels, Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, with a bunch of disposable and largely unsympathetic numbskulls.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Back in 1848, being called a goose was like being called a dunderhead.
    Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 26 June 2024
  • Back in 1848, being called a goose was like being called a dunderhead.
    Detroit Free Press, Detroit Free Press, 12 Aug. 2023
Noun
  • The weekend’s total box office revenue reached $23.9 million, a dip from the previous frame, which was 23.9 million.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 May 2025
  • Newfound Gap Use this dip in the mountain ridge to take in the surrounding scenery.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 18 May 2025
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“Dumb cluck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dumb%20cluck. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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