Carol Loomis

From the minute I got to 'Fortune,' I loved my job. I knew myself to be a virtual dunce about business, and I was wide-eyed about how much I was learning.

American Journalist

Lisa Marie Presley

I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.

American Musician

William Cowper

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

English Poet

Emma Goldman

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

Russian Activist

Declan Donnelly

I was an average student. Not a dunce. Used to play for the school football team.

English Producer

Lord Byron

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

British Poet

Isaac D'Israeli

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

British Writer

Alexander Pope

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

Peter Thiel

American Businessman

Carroll O'Connor

American Actor

Used to insult someone's intelligence, often considered hurtful.

Negative Connotation

Originally referred to followers of John Duns Scotus, who wore 'dunce caps'.

Historical Origin

A 'dunce cap' was formerly used to punish and shame students in school.

Classroom Punishment

Implies someone's actions lack sense or judgement, not necessarily intelligence.

Foolish Actions

Less harsh than other insults, it can be used in a teasing way.

Mild Insult

People may use it to humorously criticize their own silly mistake.

Self-Deprecation

 checkerboard I could see that if I moved in moved yeah I'd get an advantage on it and when I learned how to play checkers I learned how to communicate so I went from a dunce to a halfway decent person and so check has changed my life anybody

Checkers Is the Heart...

 feeling like a kid in the corner with a dunce cap. Like all the studies of robots and work I’ve done in the last eight years, I started this one with a big, open How do we learn to work with intelligent machines?

Dunce

Negative Connotation

Historical Origin

Classroom Punishment

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