| 单词 | dunderhead |
| 例句 | Hermione Granger was on the edge of her seat and looked desperate to start proving that she wasn’t a dunderhead. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z "You always used to like calling me a dunderhead. And an oaf." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z In 1904, Henry Adams characterized Harvard students as languid, snobbish dunderheads. The coddling of the conservative mind 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Other standard "argh!" moments include bridesmaids being forced into cheap dresses because the stag night cost half the budget; important friends and family not receiving invitations; the best man being a complete dunderhead. Weddings and TV: a happy union? 2010-09-24T12:56:00Z If you were lucky enough to fall in with a group like that, and if you weren't a a complete dunderhead that reflexively resisted anything new, your horizons expanded. What I'll miss about Blockbuster 2010-07-19T15:01:00Z How did a man described as a “half-insane rascal” and “pathetic dunderhead” rise to power in the land of Goethe and Beethoven? The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z My best friend from childhood married a dunderhead who thinks it’s funny to post unflattering pictures of her on Instagram without her knowledge. Can I Ask My Parents for an Advance on My Inheritance? 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z In Jackson Heights” The latest from the brilliant Frederick Wiseman has a three-hour-plus running time; maybe this explains why once again the dunderheads at the Academy didn’t put him in contention. The Best Movies of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z It actually appears that Eric Trump, despite his dunderhead reputation, was far more involved in running the place. Trump's kids take the stand in N.Y. fraud trial — but only Ivanka matters 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Even the dunderheads who think Tucker Carlson is a moral authority struggle to buy that one. However racist you thought the "woke banks" talking point was, it's worse 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Adolf Hitler was described by a prominent magazine editor in 1930 as a "big mouth," a "half-insane rascal," a "pathetic dunderhead" and a "nowhere fool." "King Trump" dreams of a glorious return: It seems preposterous, but we laugh at our peril 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z Still, it is enraging to watch a parade of dunderheads preen on cable — anchors and generals and chatterers — the same people whose cheerleading ensnared us in 20 years of quicksand in Iraq and Afghanistan. Opinion | A Rough Beast Returns 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z Watching DJ Trump’s traveling circus of political panjandrums, diplomatic dunderheads and popular pandemonium is like watching bareback riders running round and round a ring. Trump is teetering – and tweeting – on a high wire with Syria crisis 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Perhaps Nancy Pelosi and those dunderheads at the DNC will actually look up from their hiding places and offer some help for candidates not necessarily on their favored status list. In Red-State Races, Democrats Seek an Edge by Defying the N.R.A. 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z They must think the American people are dunderheads. Opinion | The Make Inequality Worse Act of 2017 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z We need people to speak out, he suggests, or otherwise we’ll find a blustering dunderhead in the White House and an idiocracy in full sail. Bon Iver: 'There are people who are into being famous. And I don’t like that' 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z “The fact that she’s swooning over Ted Cruz — a bigot, a hater, and an all around dunderhead — is galling,” she wrote on her blog. Caitlyn Jenner’s Republican politics aren’t going over well 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z She fumed, as many have done before: “If centuries of privileged breeding and education produce dunderheads and philistines, that proves talent is genetically random, not inherited.” Queen Elizabeth II, 23,226 Days Later, Becomes Britain’s Longest-Serving Monarch 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z What if the town recognized what it had — in talent, in appealing central stars and in organizational brains — before the kind of mega-success that would convert any dunderhead? Nationals haven’t won anything, but fans prove D.C. is a good sports town 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z Although the recording is potentially the first inconvertible audio proof that Sterling is a dunderhead racist, many players were aware of his wrongheaded views. Reid: NBA players didn’t protest Donald Sterling until his racism was directed at one of their own 2014-04-28T22:21:19Z So maybe I was a dunderhead, or something colorfully worse. Off the Dribble: Only the Knicks’ Fans Were (Briefly) Rejuvenated 2013-05-24T16:05:48Z Hiring eggheads rather than dunderheads is generally wise, though it can backfire: just ask the banks that employed “quants” by the dozen to create financial instruments that no one understood. Schumpeter: Titans of innovation 2013-04-25T15:03:50Z “The wastefulness of that dunderhead!” exclaimed the skipper. Dr. Grenfell's Parish The Deep Sea Fisherman 2012-03-15T02:00:30.867Z If I fail, I am a dunderhead!—I shall be the first to say it. Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z From dunderheads and dunces we can protect ourselves; but from your sharp-witted gentleman, all enlightenment and no prejudice, we have but to cry, "Heaven defend us!" Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z "And why don't you love her, you dunderhead?" The Fourth Estate, vol.1 2011-12-25T03:00:10.170Z "Better go to h——, you dunderhead," said the Beau, very white with well-bred passion and the shock of the catastrophe. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z “A dunderhead,” say the folk, “can cotch fish; but it takes a man t’ find un.” Dr. Grenfell's Parish The Deep Sea Fisherman 2012-03-15T02:00:30.867Z “Come ’round t’ the lee side, you dunderhead! Every Man for Himself 2011-08-09T02:00:26.920Z Everybody seems to think that record company executives are big greedy dunderheads. State of the Art: Online Music, Unshackled 2011-07-27T19:47:18Z Here’s my watch, with my initials engraved upon the case, and to be sure—why, what a dunderhead I am!” The Mynns' Mystery 2010-12-20T17:12:18.180Z We accused our colleagues in the media who suggest otherwise of being sycophantic dunderheads, who are too easily impressed by handsome continentals who peddle a steady line in pseudo-mystic waffle and jokes that aren't funny. The Fiver 2010-04-29T15:08:00Z Because I'm not fool enough to believe that story—and not dunderhead enough to be taken in by a practical joke. The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel Look at me, Sariette, old boy, and tell me if I look like a dunderhead. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels Well, the recording executives may, in fact, be big greedy dunderheads. State of the Art: Online Music, Unshackled 2011-07-27T19:47:18Z It was plain that Artemisia would develop into one of those women who waste no time over dunderheads. Captain Macedoine's Daughter Conrad--dunderhead that you are--don't whack away in that blind, furious style, man! The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. If she hadn't married that dunderhead she'd have been a happy woman. The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons Well—I never! what a dunderhead I am!" he said to himself—"fancy sleeping like that, why such a thing has never happened to me before! Fairy Tales from the German Forests I have heard the late Mr. Stewart of Cromarty remark, that the humbler dunderheads of the parish had all introduced themselves to his acquaintance long ere he found out its clever fellows. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. “An’ ye bide here, ye dunderhead!” he accused. The Cruise of the Shining Light "Well; of all the dunderheads I ever heard of that Tom Percival is the biggest," thought Rodney, who had never in his life been more astounded. Rodney The Partisan Of course, Vienna disavowed the dunderhead—royalty has no use for persons that allow themselves to be compromised—and he has been in disgrace ever since. Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess And so it is; but we dunderheads in England have used the word so often that we have half forgotten its meaning. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France All the same," continued Lupin, "what a pack of dunderheads you and the rest must be! The Confessions of Arsène Lupin Half an hour before the fantastic meteorological turn of events, Bureau Chief Botts dangled the forecast sheet before Johnny Sloman's bloodshot eyes and barked, "It's all over the country by now, you dunderhead!" Summer Snow Storm By the time Malcom was in his sophomore year, he was apparently convinced that his instructors were dunderheads to the last man. By Proxy Albert, there are plenty of dunderheads and duffers like me in the country who are good for nothing better than cannonfodder. Greener Than You Think We Florentines count some other qualities in a man besides that vulgar stuff called bravery, which is to be got by hiring dunderheads at so much per dozen. Romola And let me tell you, you dunderhead,” 36he added to James, “this will cost you your position.” Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers "Why, you dunderhead, we are looking for rebels ourselves!" The Liberty Boys Running the Blockade or, Getting Out of New York Now Sir Robert Hazlewood was a formal old dunderhead, who was of opinion that his family, and all connected with it, were the only really important things in the universe. Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North What did I tell them, the duffers and dunderheads? Greener Than You Think It gave me some satisfaction to telegraph to that dunderhead at Denouval to walk along the river bank to Meulan, and report if he learnt the launch's whereabouts. The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont If I had a dozen good men and true,—not such dunderheads as your officer captured in the Magnolia,—I should be able to proceed in a more orderly and regular manner. Stand By The Union "Am I such a dunderhead that I haven't made that plain?" The Swindler and Other Stories When he took it to some of his favourite "dunderheads," they were sure that he was mistaken, saying that it had been set by a noted jeweller, and could not be an imposition. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance But this was before the time of Titian, for when Titian came down to Venice there were painters employed in the shop of Sebastian Zuccato who made the designs for the dunderheads to follow. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters Granted you are right," answered Janstins, "yet these dunderheads will not view the matter with such common sense. Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century Such ideas were only for dunderheads, who, moreover, in every country had their own particular form of belief for the clever people and the priests to turn to their own purposes. The Pilot and his Wife "Well, you are a dunderhead to take a joke like that for sober earnest," said Jost, bursting into a loud laugh. Veronica And Other Friends Two Stories For Children "Didn't I tell you that the dunderheads don't know enough even to point a gun?" The Downfall "I wonder," he mutters as he returns to the table, "if that unmitigated wooden image of a dunderhead would pay any attention if I were to kick him?" Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 But I was called away, and so I had to leave it to those dunderheads at the garage. The Knave of Diamonds Let 'em go for dunderheads as they are…. Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. "If I used my own some of these dunderheads would recognize it, and want to meddle in the affair." A Study in Scarlet Many years ago a schooner sailed from Gloucester bound to the Grand Bank, in charge of a thick dunderhead of a skipper, and a crew of about equal mental calibre. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale You're the stupidest dunderhead I ever saw or ever heard of, so help me Moses! Life on the Mississippi, Part 2. Is that what I asked you for, dunderhead? The Countess of Escarbagnas There was once--twenty or thirty years ago--a whole school of dunderheads who wondered whether St. Patrick ever existed, because the mass of legends surrounding his name troubled them. First and Last I never saw such a dunderhead; can't you understand anything at all? A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 4. It is particularly unpleasant to hear a bullet come singing and booming down the line from some excited dunderhead on the far left or right. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter There is TOM, the dunderhead, who is always sleepy and he will put that down about him. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 23, September 3, 1870 Holy Mother!" he regarded me with surprise, contempt and pity, all together: "was ever such a dunderhead! The Splendid Spur Therefore, thou dunderhead, I will be a Rangar Rajput,—a stranger in a strange land, traveling by her favor to visit her in Khinjan! King of the Khyber Rifles But, Matt, you old dunderhead, you mustn't sell a good thing. Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley Trumperton was up, hammering out those sentences which smell, not so much of the lamp as of the dunderhead. The Beetle Such dunderheads would see no artistic difference between Phidias and the man of to-day who hews out and sets up a common marble mantel- piece! Ardath Really men are not such dullard dunderheads as women are pleased to imagine. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel He was just a dunderhead, like any one of us—just as much as the most eminent feminine psychologist alive—which is saying a good deal. The Fortunate Youth Sandy, you're a daft body," said Jean, and Jock added: "Mind the Chief, you dunderhead, and keep your tongue behind your teeth. The Scotch Twins The dunderhead's as poor a judge of men as he's marksman. The Red Acorn You may hear the clouds called flower-stalks with spiritual blossoms, impoverished students, stormy sea, camel, monkey, battling giants, swarm of flies, prophet with a flowing beard, dunderhead, etc. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students |
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