dunce

How To Use dunce In A Sentence

• People with a political grudge couldn’t stop themselves from hyping it into something sinister or, at best, evidence of duncery. Damn them « BuzzMachine
• When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by his sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. 
• When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by his sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. 
• A dunce, according to the dictionary, is "one who is slow-witted or stupid."
• When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by his sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. 
• But then people stopped wearing dunces-caps in the towns because it came to be seen as a sign of a provincial, a peasant.
• When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by his sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. 
• A maths 'citizenship test' may sound eccentric, but the margin between duncery and genius can be a mere decimal place. Times, Sunday Times
• The prose is clear enough that a math dunce like me can grasp it, and the superhero examples are enough, I think, to interest even someone who already knows physics.
• ‘mammetry’ or idolatry; ‘dunce’ is from Duns Scotus; while there is a legend that the ‘knot’ or sandpiper is named from Canute or Knute, with whom this bird was a special favourite. English Past and Present