simpleton

noun

sim·ple·ton ˈsim-pəl-tən

Synonyms of simpleton next

: a person lacking in common sense

Examples of simpleton in a Sentence

The instructions were so complicated I felt like a complete simpleton. his silly antics at office parties have earned him a reputation as a simpleton

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Gamble, seeing there was no way to get anywhere with the chancellor playing the simpleton, opened the floor to softball questions. —

Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024 Americans, even or especially historians, tend to treat the early New Englanders as dogmatists: narrow, pious simpletons. —

Marilynne Robinson, Harper's Magazine, 1 July 2022 All three of his major poetry-writing heteronyms, with their distinctive and incompatible orientations to life—a holy simpleton of a shepherd, a moody naval engineer, and a stoical medical student turned Latin instructor—are impressive modern poets, as is Pessoa under his own name. —

Benjamin Kunkel, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021 His competition was Forrest Gump, a feel-good studio drama that located America’s soul in a sweet simpleton played by Tom Hanks. —

Michael Schulman, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2023 See all Example Sentences for simpleton