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Recent Examples of dweeb
Just what, exactly, is so relatable about the slapstick odyssey of this unfortunate white-collar dweeb?
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Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
12 Nov. 2025
While Peters veers closer to a stock villain — the ubiquitous empowered dweeb, though those coding-sequence tattoo sleeves are a nice embellishment — Hasan Minhaj and Arturo Castro are appealing as Eve’s ENCOM associates.
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Oct. 2025
Brooke portrays Penny, an alpha dweeb on a mission to take down the cool kids.
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Denise Petski,
Deadline,
12 Sep. 2025
In nearly every comics appearance, Olsen is inherently something of a dweeb; a hanger-on to Lois and Clark who looks up to them and doesn’t always get respect back.
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James Grebey,
Vulture,
16 July 2025
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
12 Nov. 2025
While Peters veers closer to a stock villain — the ubiquitous empowered dweeb, though those coding-sequence tattoo sleeves are a nice embellishment — Hasan Minhaj and Arturo Castro are appealing as Eve’s ENCOM associates.
—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Oct. 2025
Brooke portrays Penny, an alpha dweeb on a mission to take down the cool kids.
—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
12 Sep. 2025
In nearly every comics appearance, Olsen is inherently something of a dweeb; a hanger-on to Lois and Clark who looks up to them and doesn’t always get respect back.
—
James Grebey,
Vulture,
16 July 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dweeb
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In the film, the villain is not the Harvard nerds who initially shun Elle, but the ex-boyfriend who never saw her as anything more than a cardboard cutout of a girl with blonde hair and big boobs.
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Hunter Pence, a nerd at heart, spent money from his first paycheck to buy himself a gaming computer to play World of Warcraft.
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Beloved by coffee snobs and design aficionados alike, the Alessi stovetop coffee maker blends high-quality brewing with a form that is beautiful enough to leave out all day long.
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The move shocked snobs everywhere, who could not believe that the future Queen of England had chosen a ring from a common catalogue.
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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.
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The sleeveless body-skimming dress features a transparent mesh finish that left little to the imagination, totally transforming an otherwise classic LBD into something far more provocative (and brat-like).
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His menu includes more than two dozen food options, including the Southwest egg rolls ($11), quesadillas ($14), black and blue burger ($14), beer brat ($12), and fish and chips ($14).
Noun
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So a lot of the counterintelligence training that's given to the troops, the officers, the defense contractors, a lot of it is kind of like, don't be naive, don't be a dolt, in short.
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He was denounced by rebel propagandists as a tyrant and remembered by Americans as a reactionary dolt.
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Hitting the snot out of the ball.
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Sea snot has invaded the Aegean and killed off dozens of species in the Marmara.
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The movie concludes the issue wasn't technology, but that Bonnie simply needed to find like-minded people who are, no offense, huge dorks like her.
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Swiping through profiles on your handset is so much sexier than finding dates on your computer like a dork.
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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.
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Insulting this imbecile became the most rewarding pastime on earth.
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“Dweeb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dweeb. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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