as in idiot
a stupid person
even a knucklehead like me can use this system
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Recent Examples of knucklehead
To be blunt, rather than being the smartest guys in the room, they are thought to be knuckleheads and bought everything to do with heavily indebted loan packaging, both public and private.
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Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
1 Mar. 2026
My character is just total knucklehead.
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Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Dec. 2025
Let’s fill you in, with one final LDS quadrupleheader edition from us knuckleheads at Weird and Wild Postseason Headquarters.
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Jayson Stark,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2025
No white knucklehead wants to buy from him.
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Grace Byron,
Vulture,
22 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for knucklehead
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
1 Mar. 2026
My character is just total knucklehead.
—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Dec. 2025
Let’s fill you in, with one final LDS quadrupleheader edition from us knuckleheads at Weird and Wild Postseason Headquarters.
—
Jayson Stark,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2025
No white knucklehead wants to buy from him.
—
Grace Byron,
Vulture,
22 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for knucklehead
Recent Examples of Synonyms for knucklehead
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Mantzoukas was willing to look like a maniac and a moron in equal measure.
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Lluís then calls Puig Antich a moron.
Noun
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My dad has always said the lottery is a tax on the stupid.
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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.
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“Knucklehead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knucklehead. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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