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Stupidity See also Dimwittedness, Ignorance. Abdera maritime city whose inhabitants were known proverbially for their stupidity. [Gk. Folklore: Benét, 2] inhabitants of rural Greek district; considered by Athenians to be dolts. [Gk. Folklore: Brewer Dictionary, 124] mythical place inhabited by amiable simpletons. [Jew. Folklore: Rosten, 84] chooses cuckoo’s singing over nightingale’s. [Ger. Folk-lore and Poetry: Brentano and Arnim, Des Knaben Wunderhorn; NCE, 363] archexample of stupidity. [Br. Lit.: Love’s Labour’s Lost] ignorant, blundering constable. [Br. Lit.: Measure for Measure] a baker, foolish to the point of saintliness, is cuckolded and mocked, becomes a Wandering Jew. [Jewish Lit.: Singer Gimpel the Fool in Weiss, 174] hopeless schlemiel who devises impossible enterprises. [Yid. Lit.: Sholem Aleichem in Haydn & Fuller, 685] symbol of foolishness. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 176] simpleton of bumptious ways. [Nurs. Rhyme: Opie, 385] “though well-landed, an idiot.” [Br. Lit.: Merry Wives of Windsor] dummy with self-referring name. [TV: “Winchell and Mahoney” in Terrace, II, 190–192] a real dummy. [Radio: “The Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy Show” in Buxton, 76–77]
simpleton; made gapingstock by all. [Br. Lit.: Every Man in His Humour] fools momentarily afloat in a light bowl. [Nuns. Rhyme: Opie, 193] |
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| Where pride and stupidity unite there can be no dissimulation worthy notice, and Miss Vernon shall be consigned to unrelenting contempt; but by all that I can gather Lady Susan possesses a degree of captivating deceit which it must be pleasing to witness and detect. As Jamrach had not become rich by stupidity, he handed something to his guide and hastened on, and soon came to a toll-gate kept by a Benevolent Gentleman, to whom he gave something, and was suffered to pass. "Half the trouble is the stupidity of the whites," said Roberts, pausing to take a swig from his glass and to curse the Samoan bar-boy in affectionate terms. |
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