He was notorious throughout the whole Saitch for his stupidity, which had gained him the nickname of "Dunce Ataman" and the privilege of being laughed at by the elders for every word he uttered.
Have I ever ventured to suggest that I am other than the dunce of the family?
But she knew that the truth was, that from her earliest years she was looked on as the dunce of the family, and she was so morbidly self-conscious that she was quite ready to accept their estimate of her.
That is the precious endowment of the dunce of the clever family--good sense; the one who stands next to the dunce in the lack of accomplishments should be endowed with good nature.
I constantly feel that I am thedunce of the family--you are all so clever.
It is well for many families that they include one useful member," said her stepmother in a way that suggested her complete agreement with the girl's confession that she was the dunce of the family.
You must remember that poor Fanny has had none of your advantages, and I do not want her to be talked of as the dunce of the family.
You see how he tells you you are to be a comfort; and if you are a good boy, you'll quickly leave the dunce behind.
Behold, the Christians despising the Dunce Greeks, as the Infidel modernists despise the Dunce Christians.
Just as the criminal is generally a man of unusual energy and mental power directed into wrong channels, so the dunce is a pupil whose special powers and aptitudes have not revealed themselves in the routine of school life.
And just as the criminal points to serious defects in our social system, so the dunce points to serious defects in our educational system.
We have here a picture of Miss Judith standing on the dunce block for not learning her lesson.
The dunce block and dunce cap are now out of fashion; perhaps if they were more used in school, we should have fewer grown up dunces in the world.
Sometimes I put my coat on her, and mamma puts a dunce cap on her head.
Lyman Beecher, and was regarded as the dunce of the family, and, according to his own account, had the usual unpleasant experience of ministers' children.
Mr. Andrews says it cost him one hundred and fifty dollars to put Prissy through, and Prissy wasn't a dunce in geometry.
Mrs. Allan told me she was a dunce at geometry too.
Mr. Phillips says I'm the worstdunce he ever saw at it.
What a pitch of glory for the dunce who had been shamed into learning Greek verbs at Harrow!
Did not I earn it by my own ingenuity from that selfish dunce (pointing to Fisher), who could never have gotten one of his twelve buns, if I had not shown him how?
At Doctor Middleton's school there was a great tall dunce of the name of Fisher, who never could be taught how to look out a word in the dictionary.
A dunce always thinks it clever to cheat even by sober lies.
So when a statesman wants a day's defence, Or envy holds a whole week's war with sense, Or simple pride for flattery makes demands, May dunce by dunce be whistled off my hands!
I'm no scholard; it's like throwing away labour to teach me, I'm such a dunce at my book.
Make a dunce cap and put on head of dignified person.
Returning, he proclaims by many a grace, By shrugs and strange contortions of his face, How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
The hero of the Dunciad is neither Theobald nor Cibber; Pope forced a dunce to appear as Cibber; but this was not making Cibber a dunce.
In one of these letters of Hurd's it is very amusing to read--"Taylor is a more creditable dunce than Webster.
It was certainly impossible for a girl like Kitty Malone not to be popular; and the other girls valued her, and thought themselves highly privileged to be in the same class with her, dunce as she was.
Now, I have always and always been told that I was a dunce of the dunces.
It will be the sort of paper that will pass muster, and long before prize day there will be an undercurrent of belief in the school that Mabel is by no means the dunce she is credited to be.
You have assured us that Mabel is not the dunceof the school, but the genius.
It is no easy matter to convert a girl who has hitherto been renowned as a dunce into a genius.
He could not be more unsettled and useless if he were the merest dunce in the three kingdoms.
And yet, with all my struggles, will knowledge ever place me on the same level as that on which this dunce is born?
Peasant, voter, and dunce of this century are no doubt wiser than the churl, burgher, and blockhead of the twelfth.
The man or woman who does not learn some vital lesson in that school is looked upon as a dunce indeed.
The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.
By the end of the hour, Peggy was entirely convinced that she was the dunce and butt of the school; that she knew nothing, and never would know anything.
Peggy Montfort, you are not a dunce at all; you are just shamming.
My cousins will think me a dunce indeed if you herald me thus.
Whosoever he was, he certainly was no dunce in the use of his weapon, and with all Timothy's skill he had much ado to hold his own.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dunce" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
