Translations for „half-wit“ in the English » German Dictionary

ˈhalf-wit N pej

half-wit

Dummkopf m pej

half-wit

Schwachkopf m pej

half-wit

A a. Trottel m sl

half-wit

CH a. Depp m pej

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

John was prone to laughing aimlessly, which led many to consider him a half-wit.

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Modest describes her as a crazed half-wit.

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We recognize that you're a half-wit, and we shouldn't have let you put this together.

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It is high time that everbody in the world know exactly where we stand... not being dictated to by half-wit politicians and half-wit voters that, supposedly, put them into place.

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The first segment is particularly nice, when what should be a simple breath-test turns into the kind of ordeal that only a good-natured half-wit drunkard can inflict.

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There are plenty of half-wits out there who believe precisely what he wrote.

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And there was always some half-wit 17-year-old councillor, who would seem to a group of little boys to be worldly and debonair.

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After all, what kind of half-wit would store such highly personal material on what is, essentially, a giant public computer server?

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You're a half-wit of a simpleton.

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They have no respect for the value of the taxpayers dollars and therefore we are engaged in every half-wit scheme that is proposed to them.

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