Word: nitwit
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...chambers opened and her husband came tra-la-la-ing down the hall, as slender and pale as a maiden. He saw Felicity and paused, his eyes filled with a sweetness that Felicity had never seen.“I hope you are enjoying your tryst with that nitwit of a biddy with her skirts hiked up about her waist,” said Felicity, but her venom had not the slightest effect on her husband’s serene countenance. He sighed softly, and smiled.“You look lovely, Felicity,” Frederick said...
...here as an academic, not a politician. Bayrou is a farmer's son, for sure, and a gentleman farmer, probably. But while he is no product of a French administrative or political grande école, he is a doctor of literature. He is, therefore, quite an erudite individual. No nitwit! And an excellent, learned writer in his own right. Françoise Aubert Greer, FERNEY-VOLTAIRE, FRANCE
...ensured that the U.S is, bizarrely, one of few developed countries that doesn't forbid human cloning. Responsible scientists wouldn't try it, but an unethical researcher could read the Science paper and attempt to use the technique to bring a clone to term. "I'm afraid that some nitwit is going to try," says Larry Goldstein, a cellular and molecular biologist at the University of California at San Diego. But given the high rate of spontaneous abortions and genetic defects seen in other species, it's not likely to work. The Science paper is a recipe for cloning, said...
...there's a special reason to resent a political speech at the Oscars - and it's not just bias against Hollywood liberals. (Everyone considers Arnold Schwarzenegger a nitwit for holding forth politically too, and he's conservative.) Call it the Panhandler Syndrome. A speaker like Moore is like a beggar in a New York City subway car. Even people who give to charity and the homeless resent this kind of panhandling, because it takes advantage of a captive audience. It's not like you can just jump out onto the tracks if you don't want to be bothered...
Marisa (Jennifer Lopez) is a hard-pressed chambermaid in a tony hotel. Christopher (Ralph Fiennes) is a perfectly pressed nitwit--playing at elective politics, fooling around with supermodels, delighting the tabloids. Marisa is single-momming an adorable son (Tyler Posey). Christopher has an adorable dog. One day she tries on a rich guest's smashing new pantsuit; she looks scrumptious. He spots her in it and naturally falls in love. The usual class complications ensue...