Simpleton

//ˈsɪmpəltən//

"Simpleton" in a Sentence (11 examples)

This poor simpleton has been robbed of four gold pieces. Take him, therefore, and throw him into prison.

Based on the way he formulated his arguments, one could tell that he was a simpleton.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays the part.

This one is a real simpleton, for sure. And he's a president.

First we need to figure out how to fool this simpleton.

Well, did you manage to fool this simpleton?

Tom is a simpleton.

He seems like a bent-over simpleton.

The stranger had crossed a sacred line. He had mentioned the men's mothers. Nothing could get him out of a beating now, even the fact that he was obviously a simpleton. Albeit a simpleton with a good vocabulary.

Baron Cohen’s new creation (and the previous ones, too) has its roots in Groucho characters like Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding, Otis B. Driftwood, and Prof. Quincy Adams Wagstaff, and the concept of a pompous simpleton running a rogue nation has obvious parallels to Duck Soup’s Rufus T. Firefly, who leads the country of Fredonia to a needless and highly preventable war.

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“Doesn't matter. That man is not the leader.” “But he is the main guy on the show.” “He is an actor, Nandor. A simpleton who paints his face. He is an empty-headed puppet who thinks the world loves him, when in actual fact, he is nothing more than a lapdog begging for scraps.” [groans] “No, he is not the leader. That would be another devil who pulls the strings. The halfwit they call the director.”

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