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Word: dumb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spend so much time defending sports as a valid form of entertainment. Then this issue makes me come off as some dumb guy who likes sports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rebecca Romijn | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...relieved, because if he had made it out of the woods and killed people, this column would have made me feel really bad. But I mostly felt stupid for picturing him hunting squirrels with sharp rocks when he couldn't even cross a river. Then again, how dumb were those 500 officers not to look there? Were they still investigating the pillows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rooting for the Death-Row Fugitive Guy | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...bathtub, talking about how alone he is and how his parents "never took me to Disneyland!" and finishes the piece by cutting his wrists, which he immediately bandages. The performance leaves Tad "irritated," somewhat scornful of such observations that pose at being deep but wind up being simply dumb. This is O'Donnell's recognition that the style he himself is using can deteriorate into empty words if taken to an unmitigated extreme...

Author: By Leah A. Plunkett, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: We Wish You a Dysfunctional Christmas | 12/11/1998 | See Source »

...such dumb luck that I started playing, but I feel like I'm very cut out for rugby in a lot of ways," Steele said. "In a fourth-grade game of capture the flag a kid was just standing in my way as I was about to cross the line, and it didn't even occur to me to go around him. I just dropped a shoulder and rammed into...

Author: By Maggie Jacobberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rugby's Heart of Steele | 12/8/1998 | See Source »

Admit it: you've wondered why beautiful people rarely have any state-of-the-art skills. Are they born dumb, or does something happen to them during childhood? (Unless you're beautiful yourself, you've had those thoughts, so stop rolling your eyes and making that "phhht" sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gene Fool | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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