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Sentence Examples In the olden days if you were a dunce in class, you were made to stand at the back of the class, enduring unimaginable embarrassment. He and his partner continue to thuggishly interrogate the local townsmen, attempting to pin the crime on the local town dunce. They did, however, place a headpiece on her head that resembled a dunce cap. I'm such a dunce walking into a stupid place like this but its not like they could identify me. And I think I can say, with all fairness, that the management thinks I'm a dunce. Those who gave the name were not simple enough to think that even an opsimath was not something better than a contented dunce. Honestly, what kind of dunce criminal would decide to not burglarize some place just because the radio is on and playing some light jazz? Bretz was called a dunce and a heretic, but over time his work became widely accepted. Those people should be wearing a dunce cap, not giving themselves million dollar bonuses. He portrayed members of the Annexionist Party with their leader, the painter Joseph Légaré, wearing a dunce cap. I feel like a dunce in this company, until I get talking to some of my mates in the group who share a lot of my frustrations and aspirations, and are a holy if unruly group. There are two shooting stops, one prone, one standing, dunce Lap penalty for misses. The prose is clear enough that a math dunce like me can grasp it, and the superhero examples are enough, I think, to interest even someone who already knows physics. Even a complete dunce with absolutely no sense of social rank and cliques would know that a guy like Matt should never go to a party hosted by my sister. He slipped quietly and unobtrusively through school, not a scholar, nor yet a dunce, quite good at sports and swimming, quiet and friendly with all, but with no close friends. But such branding ostracizes that behavior, like the film should be forced to wear a dunce cap and publicly shamed in the corner. Like the pursuit, there are four stops for shooting, but in lieu of a dunce Lap each miss adds a full minute to your total time. If you miss you have to hit the 150m penalty loop, or as I like to call it, the dunce Lap. The remainder of the season could all go horribly wrong of course, and if it does I'll look like a prize dunce for saying all this. Global leader in military power he may be, but he is a global dunce in citizenship and respect for others. Show More Sentences With such a disappointing environmental record, Canada does not only deserve the dunce cap, it should be expelled from school. While Dominick was more of a vanilla kind of a guy himself, he wasn't a total dunce when it came to the kinkier sides of things. Unfortunately, the federal government is considered as a dunce in environment, and the report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development proves it. The students, some wearing dunce caps, refused to leave and organised a series of life drawing classes near the entrance to the central London gallery. You are classed as a dunce, a bird-brain, as thick. At school the dunce draws a Picasso style chicken on the black board. We can only wait and see, and we hope for a future generation which does not have to be herded into rooms, and be made to wear dunce caps. But Parisians have the wonderful knack of putting you firmly in the corner of the class with that big pointy dunce hat wedged firmly sur la tete. There's nothing so humbling as being a dunce in a foreign tongue, and if it weren't for her compassion, we'd have lost heart after two weeks. The dunce cap resembles the tall conical wizard's hat that was placed on the head of Jan Hus before he was burned at the stake. On display is a schoolhouse stove, the classic black outfit of a female teacher, and a dunce cap. Not all are convinced that Pisa officials should don the dunce cap. The only thing I had on my mind in the first grade was a dunce cap, and they didn't have one in my size, which gave me a big head. We will be vilified by the digital futurists, ridiculed by colleagues in our industry and fitted with a dunce cap by the trade media. He coned the top of the pottery to make it look like a dunce cap. There was a dunce cap which children had to wear if they couldn't remember the poems by heart and they had to stand up with their hands on their heads during telling offs. I have read very little science, and all through my schooling I was so adroit at weaseling out of physical training that corporeally I have worn a dunce cap all my life. However, it escapes the ignominy of being sent into a corner complete with dunce hat because it is a well-built, versatile MPV with a good range of standard equipment. When asked where the Alvin Ailey American Dunce Theater is heading in the 21st century, Judith Jamison lets out a roar of a belly laugh. Prosecutors and judges should make them wear Dunce Caps and throw the book at them. Examples from Classical Literature On the contrary, he dominated his fellows as absolutely as if he had been a dullard and a dunce. Had she taken the teasing of the meaner girls in a wiser spirit, she knew they would not have sent her the dunce cap. That dunce is with her on a few days vacation from a school for the feeble-minded. Fowell learnt very little at school, and was regarded as a dunce and an idler. She was not alone a dunce when it came to acting, she was a prevaricator as well. In a school carried on by sheer cruelty, whether it is presided over by a dunce or not, there is not likely to be much learnt. A fool, a dunce, or a bad man does harm and not good in the world. After all, Harry was no dunce, but he was not yet convinced. The world's a father to a dunce unknown, And much he thrives, for Dulness! Can he courteously talk to an equal, and browbeat an impudent dunce? 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What is the opposite of dunce? Words that rhyme with dunce What is the plural of dunce? What is the adverb for dunce? What is the adjective for dunce? What is the noun for dunce? Translations for dunce Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Duncan Dunbar dunam Duna dun dumpy dunces dunch dun-coloured Dundalk Dundee dunder 5-letter Words Starting With d du dun dunc