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That is not to imply that everyone running an insurer is a crook, a fraud or a simpleton.
Or perhaps she felt that I am a simpleton who would welcome such kittens in his inbox, and that when I saw its dear little ears I would be happy.
But interestingly enough, he is the very human core to the film, a strong, faithful muscleman whose basic needs match his simpleton intellect.
By marrying a simpleton, he hopes to prevent his fear of being made a cuckold being realized.
It is endlessly diverting and can keep a simpleton like me amused for near hours on end.
Being a neophyte, rookie and simpleton, I wasn't automatically in the mindset of gaming.
I was mocked as a simpleton when I sang of birds and bees and flowers like a child.
Is God a fool, a simpleton who can be fobbed off with an empty formula of words?
Grant pronounced each word slowly, with careful diction, as if Eric were a simpleton.
His malapropisms and good old boy manner give him the air of a simpleton, and yet he's not.
It's not because some simpleton has gobbled up Atheism that everything that simpleton will do will automatically be bad.
This time a simpleton working an abacus could probably project the winner.
Dom, a simple soul or maybe a simpleton, asks for a moped and a lifetime supply of gas.
It proved that Man was noble, then it turned right around and proved that Man could also be a simpleton.
You know the story about the simpleton who stared at the finger, while someone tried to show him the Moon?
The Lord has told me only to wish to be like him, a simpleton in this world.
The Commission's reply to my questions would have stunned even a simpleton.
The person who could be called pure because he had no knowledge of either good or evil would in reality be merely a simpleton.
What am I, a simpleton when it comes to golf, supposed to believe?
Living in Tuléar as a poor student on his own, Théo was handicapped by his use of dialect which made many of his peers dismiss him as a country simpleton.
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Examples from Classical Literature
To Kleinwort there was a certain humour in the idea of first gibbeting a man as a rogue, and then treating him as a simpleton.
He is a deft swindler, and I have gazed with blank innocence while he rooked some courageous simpleton at tossing.
As Camille listened to his friend, he contemplated him with all the astonishment of a simpleton.
Mr. Chubb cast a suspicious and viperous glance at Felix, who felt that he had been a simpleton for his pains.
You at any rate are not a simpleton to be taken in by any sort of hocus-pocus.
He was more than ever sure that Grannie was a simpleton and Csar a brazen hypocrite.
If she was not your grandmother, I should say that she was a simpleton.
Why, you must be the veriest simpleton to think I am unprepared.
Why, you poor short-sighted simpleton, can you not guess who this Noirtier was, whose very name he was so careful to keep concealed?
You are such a simpleton, my dear, that one can hardly bear with you.
For my own part I freely confess that, in my bachelorship, I was precisely such an over-curious simpleton as I now advise the reader not to be.
I was afraid she would take me for a simpleton if I did not do so.
And another derivation is from bhora, a simpleton or timid person.
No, simpleton, he is one of the staunchest we have for the Ministry.
Would not his neighbors regard him as a monomaniac or a simpleton?
Now, won't I give the other simpleton a piece of my mind, too?
Poor John saw he had been a simpleton himself and departed in silence.
The old staring simpleton had hot meat for his supper, then?
You don't want a simpleton half-wit running anything at all.
When they had gone the poor Simpleton began to tease his mother to smarten him up and let him start off.
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