18 examples of numskull in sentences

Used to teach numskulls Latin and mathematics in the Las Palmas High School.

Anybody but a silly old numskull would have done so.

You're the most ill-used lad and I the greatest numskull in the county.

After the hearing, if you got a notion in yore numskull that I ain't doing you right, you can apply to the Piegan City court for all the mandatory injunctions you feel like and be to you.

[person with superficial knowledge] dilettante, sciolist^, smatterer, dabbler, half scholar; charlatan; wiseacre. greenhorn, amateur &c (dupe) 547; novice, tyro &c (learner) 541; numskull. lubber &c (bungler) 701; fool &c 501; pedant &c 492.

Likewise, no system of education can hope to change a numskull into a Newton, or to produce a Solomon from a Simple Simon.

"You're a numskull," said BELINDA.

donkeys, buffaloes, oxen, fools, blockheads, numskulls, and foxes!

Why, you numskulls, don't you see it's just the chance you wanted for revenge?" "What do you mean?" exclaimed the others.

"Peters, you old numskull, come here!"

The comical sketch of their rhetoric in "Salmagundi" is literally true:"Every day have these slangwhangers made furious attacks on each other and upon their respective adherents, discharging their heavy artillery, consisting of large sheets loaded with scoundrel, villain, liar, rascal, numskull, nincompoop, dunderhead, wiseacre, blockhead, jackass."

How would you like him to be a subservient old numskull, like that old Robberts of theirs?"

'The hat that covers your numskull is black, your beard is black, your coat is black, your vest is black, your small-clothes, your stockings, your shoes, all are black.

The literal version above should therefore be changed; as, "O Bollanus, thou happy numskull!

"What a numskull you make, Grizel, of any man who presumes to write about women!

Throw titles to numskulls, not to meaway with it!"

I am sorry they are such numskulls, that they almost make me think myself something; but there are great authors enough to bring me to my senses again.

He was a savage numskull.

18 examples of  numskull  in sentences