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
  • Lluís then calls Puig Antich a moron.
    Colm Tóibín, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2026
  • This drunk moron — quite different from his character in the novel — bears a ton of blame.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Feb. 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
  • In Threes, builds its sentences from splats, crashes, clucks, clinks, whooshes, and thuds.
    Shaad D’Souza, Pitchfork, 20 Apr. 2026
  • On a recent Saturday, visitors swelter under the sun in a long line stretching into the dirt parking lot and swap rumors as passing chickens cluck at their ankles.
    Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 18 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
  • The slightly lower ranking came amid recent La Nina conditions, which typically cause a temporary dip in global average temperatures.
    Dan Peck, ABC News, 14 May 2026
  • What That Spike Feels Like in Your Body This quick bump and dip in blood sugar translates to a surge in energy levels with an equally noticeable crash soon after.
    Christina Manian, Health, 14 May 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 20 May. 2026.

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