dingbat
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berk [British], booby, charlie (also charley) [British], cuckoo, ding-a-ling, ding-dong, dipstick, doofus [slang], featherhead, fool, git [British], goose, half-wit, jackass, lunatic, mooncalf, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nit [chiefly British], nitwit, nut, nutcase, simp, simpleton, turkey, yo-yo
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Anne Hathaway ably fights off the Hatha-haters as Daphne Kluger, a dingbat movie star used by Debbie and Lou as an unwitting eighth member of the crew; in a movie where everyone keeps it close to the vest, Hathaway knows to play it brassy and big. — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, "‘Ocean’s 8’ is a different take on the bling ring," 6 June 2018 Young women have been targeted as linguistic dingbats for a long time. — Kory Stamper, The Cut, "The 300-Year History of Using ‘Literally’ Figuratively," 29 Jan. 2018 Beyond that, there’s a New York attorney general that still aims to make time for 45 and his band of dingbats. — Michael Arceneaux, The Root, "The #MeToo Movement Will Take Down the Music Industry and 17 Other Predictions For 2018," 21 Dec. 2017 Yes, Klan members could seem a bunch of dingbats with their robes, rites, and goofy language of Klaziks, Kludds, Klonsuls, and, yes, a Kloran. — Randy Dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor, "'The Second Coming of the KKK' explores the largely forgotten 1920s resurgence of the Klan," 26 Oct. 2017 Having already been yelled at because the block looked unpleasant in Comsat meetings, two dingbat detectives were told to go back and pick [Garner] up. — Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, "Matt Taibbi: The case of Eric Garner proves that broken windows policing is broken," 24 Oct. 2017 It was designed by Hermann Zaph, the same gentleman who designed everyone’s favorite dingbats font. — Kjell Reigstad, Longreads, "Art Director Kjell Reigstad on How We Refined Longreads’ Typography and Logo," 25 Sep. 2017 Who’s to say that on the day Congress plans to move its stopgap bill, Trump won’t tweet a veto threat at 6:30 a.m. because some dingbat on Fox — Jim Newell, Slate Magazine, "Welcome Back, Congress," 5 Sep. 2017 But even symbolic mother-daughter relationships have a way of turning dysfunctional, and Liz comes to see Rosemary less as a beacon than a warning — an image of the cynical, resentful, washed-up dingbat Liz herself might well become. — A.o. Scott, New York Times, "Carrie Fisher, a Princess, a Rebel and a Brave Comic Voice," 27 Dec. 2016These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'dingbat.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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