Sentence examples for dullard from high-quality English sources.

• The wisdom of a million fools in the diction of a dullard.

• Hmm, I wondered, in my slow dullard way: does this bode a bright future?

• Edo is a pretty boy, but a lightweight beside his chunky father, who in turn is a dullard compared to the old man.

• On July 31st Mr Milner, no dullard, announced that he will dish out $3m each year to the most influential thinker in fundamental physics.

• The bad news is that two particular types of dullard are winning some of the battles: government censors, and politically correct censors.

• She fought her corner against cabinet colleagues who either dismissed her as a dullard or, as she stuck around for years, feared her as a rival.

• Florentine narrative literature is represented by the Pecorone (c. 1378; “Dullard”), stories by Ser Giovanni Fiorentino after a pattern set by Boccaccio.

• Tom Hanks gives a dead-eyed, inexplicably Best Actor-winning performance as the dullard man-child whose simple, old-timey wisdom inevitably gets the better of revolutionaries, counterculturists and those pesky Vietnamese.

Use dullard in a sentence.

• The majority of the viewer’s time is spent in a sitting room doing needlepoint, with brief interludes of talking to random neighbors, and even briefer interludes of flirting with Edward Ferrars, who is fine but kind of a dullard.

• The overhead shot of the kids in single-file behind the gung-ho PE teacher jogging through the Paris streets, gradually sneaking away to bunk off, is inspired, and so is Antoine's plagiarism of Balzac - a demonstration of literary good taste lost on his dullard schoolmaster.