simpleton
an ignorant, foolish, or silly person.
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How to use simpleton in a sentence
Conservatives will retort, "This just means you simpletons don't understand high finance."
Simplicity is for simpletons: a handy slogan for the ruling class that wants more of your money.
Men of all nations arm themselves to the teeth that they may kill one another like simpletons!
Urania | Camille FlammarionThe thought of a good dinner soon made Jim laugh again; but that's the way with simpletons, you know.
Only he is exempt from studying these matters whose powers are not adequate to grasp them, such as women, children and simpletons.
A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy | Isaac Husik
The imagination is more easily isolated from the other parts of the soul in young people and simpletons.
A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy | Isaac HusikThese simpletons who imagined she was going to settle down and stay in this little place all her life!
Dry Fish and Wet | Anthon Bernhard Elias Nilsen
British Dictionary definitions for simpleton
/ (ˈsɪmpəltən) /
a foolish or ignorant person
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