as in idiots
a stupid person
it's an expensive camera, and I'd rather not turn it over to some mutt
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Recent Examples of mutts
Two dogs came into the living room to inspect the uproar, mutts from the reservation.
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Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
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
Flora and fauna abound and interacting with all of it, there’s Irakli, the type of guy who keeps kibble in the car to feed passing mutts, and who delays his departure from one village to say goodbye to a donkey.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 17 Aug. 2025
Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
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
Flora and fauna abound and interacting with all of it, there’s Irakli, the type of guy who keeps kibble in the car to feed passing mutts, and who delays his departure from one village to say goodbye to a donkey.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 17 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mutts
Noun
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Traitors is about the gullible and the skeptical working together to sieve the fraudulent from the truthful, an amalgamated nightmare of village idiots locking themselves in the stocks and pelting each other with rotten fruit.—
Raven Smith,
Vogue,
9 Jan. 2026
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And speaking of the idiots who run college football, the sport had one-fourth of its playoff coaches accepting other jobs before the playoffs even began, and has the transfer portal opening before the playoffs even come to an end.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The Dilbert principle — traced back to a quote in a 1995 strip — posited that managers and higher-ups are actually successful morons whose stubbornness is confused for real leadership qualities.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
13 Jan. 2026
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Overwhelmingly, though, the most common response was to seek confirmation of their suspicions that Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were morons.—
Rosa Lyster,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The lunatics who attacked the seat of government to try to change the outcome of a free and fair election are not patriots.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
6 Jan. 2026
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Parents know these woke lunatics are bullies.—
Maia Pandey,
jsonline.com,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The full order for picks 19-32 will be decided by playoff results — teams eliminated in the wild-card round will be placed into slots 19-24; divisional-round losers will hold picks 25-28, and so on.—
The Athletic NFL Staff,
New York Times,
11 Jan. 2026
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Dominic Tierney is an expert on losers—in the best possible way.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
10 Jan. 2026
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“Mutts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mutts. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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