And it means you engage in simpleton, “just world” thinking. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Bachmann: Bill Clinton Is Trying To ‘Celebrate’ The Oklahoma City Bombing And ‘Take [Me] Out’] Reference
No, you arrogant simpleton, that isn't just the way it is. From Wordnik.com. [08/21/2006] Reference
Do you think, because I am called a simpleton, that I have no eyes, nor ears, nor sense?. From Wordnik.com. [A Simpleton] Reference
But it seems fitting that one of the most ardent supporters of a simpleton is a simpleton. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » BREAKING: McCain Reaches Agreement With Bush On Military Tribunals] Reference
One is called a simpleton when one demands that oaths be held sacred; our crimes are nameless. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
In D. C.'s power corridors, he's known as a simpleton, but in reality he's much more dangerous. From Wordnik.com. [David Bourgeois: GOP Senate Candidate Ron Johnson: Pure Plastic] Reference
How did this apparent political naif, this so-called simpleton, this relic of the 19th century, become president?. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Right or wrong, I felt called a 'simpleton' by Anon's second post. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood Conservatives: The Not-So-Gentle Post] Reference
In a public letter, Khomeini called Montazeri a "simpleton" who was surrounded by the wrong people. From Wordnik.com. [The Ayatollah’s Inspiration] Reference
But if that's the kind of simpleton certain bloggers spend their lives entertaining, I, for one, don't mind the comparison. From Wordnik.com. [Invasion of the dirty masses] Reference
What kind of simpleton is gonna pay money (any amount) for her book?. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
Most dictionaries claim it comes from a Portuguese word meaning "simpleton" or. From Wordnik.com. [podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history] Reference
But Do-joon is the best kind of simpleton - like Lenny, he fights back with a vengeance. From Wordnik.com. [Pajiba] Reference
At last they called a boy, a kind of simpleton, yet with a good deal of natural shrewdness. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of the Sioux] Reference
Washington, however, pardoned them on the grounds that one was a "simpleton," and the other "insane.". From Wordnik.com. [American Thinker] Reference
The boy was proving himself anything but a simpleton. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
"Give the gentlemen what they want, you little simpleton!" replied. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I believe he thought I was rather a simpleton and needed humoring. From Wordnik.com. [The Short Life] Reference
'Bless me!' thought he to himself, 'Am I, then, really a simpleton?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
No, the girl is such a simpleton, I should have made her confess it. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference
When I think of him I cannot keep from laughing, the foolish simpleton. From Wordnik.com. [A California Girl] Reference
He calls this effort "simpleton thinking with the brain between my legs.". From Wordnik.com. [Sex & Love: The New World] Reference
But you are a simpleton, and it is wearisome to have anything to do with you. From Wordnik.com. [Favorite Fairy Tales] Reference
He's hired to play for my dance, not to waste his time taking a simpleton home. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
I tell you, you are a foolish girl, a simpleton; I won't have any of your nonsense. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
"The old simpleton was expectin 'some weight when ye got on, and he's disapp'inted.". From Wordnik.com. [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference
In the end, said Saheb, Omar turned out to be a simpleton and a dupe for Osama bin Laden. From Wordnik.com. [Mulla Omar Off The Record] Reference
"Your cousin has a large fortune, and is a simpleton," cried Caroline, the eldest daughter. From Wordnik.com. [The Boarding School Familiar conversations between a governess and her pupils. Written for the amusement and instruction of young ladies.] Reference
"What a simpleton," he thought, and smiled at her as if she were a child carrying around a doll. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
"Eh! and pray why dare not one speak of it, you great simpleton?" said an old soldier, twisting up his moustache. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He, the simpleton, had saddled himself with a family, and although he had drudged like a slave he had laid nothing aside. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Was he going to be simpleton enough to love this young girl and entangle his life, already so hard and heavily weighted, with a woman?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"You are becoming a great simpleton, my friend, Dorsenne," said he, seating himself more democratically in one of those open cabs called in. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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