He was what people back then called a half-wit, of course.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zombies vs. Unicorns] Reference

In fact, you're a half-wit from somewhere or other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Infotainment Scan] Reference

Hire someone to tail this self-important half-wit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maureen Dowd Devotes Whole Column To Edwards' Hair] Reference

Geez Alex, you really are a half-wit sometimes ....!.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference

No wonder lots of people had treated me as a half-wit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dead As A Doornail]

"Any half-wit knows there are no such things as Gremlins.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Myth Conceptions]

His heir is already damaged, a half-wit, couldn't you see?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stormwarden]

George said, "We've got to take care of that pink half-wit.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Leroy Miller, June 8, 1998. Interview K-0174. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

Ncube, calling him a half-wit a day after the outspoken Roman.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

'That's the guy I want to talk to, the half-wit,' says the agent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joke; Minimum Wage and worker relations] Reference

Any regressive half-wit should be capable of recognizing an ally in Obama.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Liars Reign Supreme As The Nation Withers] Reference

Romanda had quoted that ... that bloody law as though lecturing a half-wit.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Crown of Swords]

And just so you know, Sam is way better looking than this half-wit brother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Part II - Jackie] Reference

The officer considered the gesture appropriate, coming as it did from a half-wit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Starfighter]

You aren't the only half-baked, untaught, untalented half-wit to try to cheat me!.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Scepter'd Isle]

Oh, charming, I remind him of a half-wit, who can't even dress herself without help.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elvenblood]

Every time there's a challenge, there's some half-wit Dem fully opening his or her mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central Morning Roundup] Reference

No you half-wit, any report stating as fact something about which the facts are not known!.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Every blogger and half-wit with even a modicum of political awareness saw this one coming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Republicans Slam Democrats] Reference

There he began to think less about the half-wit, with his livid face and mouth like a fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Father Brown] Reference

I would feel hatred for him, but my emotions are too devoted to pitying this pathetic half-wit.    From Wordnik.com.  [If You Hate America So Much, Get the Hell Out!] Reference

I like cold drinks, hot pizza and difficult things explained to me like I'm a drooling half-wit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Technology for Dummies] Reference

“Like I'm some kind of unwashed half-wit and she's finally figured out where to lock me up.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [DarklyDreamingDexter]

But it goes on, and you simply must read what half-wit Inhofe said in rebuttal to Gore's science.    From Wordnik.com.  [lookin' down on creation] Reference

Recently, a half-wit from there wrote a letter to the editor describing Ann Coulter as "drop dead beautiful.".    From Wordnik.com.  ["The Founders Never Heard of Dumbing Down"] Reference

Then she changed the sign and waited for some half-wit from the Save the Slugs Society to show up and protest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Demonkeeping]

He was elected by a landslide, and any half-wit can see why he was elected and what his electorate wants of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama: "I Don't Think There's Any Question That We Have A Mandate"] Reference

You're not a fool ... you're a barely-functioning, half-wit moron that someone has taught to operate a keyboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gallup: Obama Leads Hillary Among Dems, But Trails McCain For The General] Reference

You probably saved my life, for you can't tell what a half-wit will do, when in a tantrum and armed with a knife.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference

Kurt's dead, and this narcissistic half-wit is walking around looking like a Clown school reject on his royalties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dlisted - Be Very Afraid] Reference

"But … you're Southerners, for heaven's sake - and you want me to help this half-wit Brown start a slave rebellion?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman and the angel of the lord]

The grolls seldom went anywhere without the third triplet, Dojango, who, being a half-wit, was the brains of the family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Angry Lead Skies]

Awed and afraid, Greeley tiptoed from the house, and all the way back to the waiting County Club he muttered like a half-wit.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the Hills] Reference