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10 examples of Simpletons in a sentence

From the outset he seems intent on proving that all young people are simpletons.
In this one Knotts plays a dimwitted bean counter for some little jerk water town run by a group of crooked simpletons only slightly brighter than he is.
The story of a grandmother who resorts to desperate measures to make money for her sick grandson's operation could've easily been a tearjerker for simpletons.
I was shocked at how americans were shown as gun toting, moronic, bloodthirsty simpletons, who like to pick fights with people.
The most egregious being that the drug is capable of transforming people into simpletons and paranoid head cases barely capable of dumb grunts.
The film tries so hard to be American in parts and it does fall flat on its face, but if someone like Quentin Tarantino had done it, it would have tied your brain in knots...In summary, this is a film for simpletons everywhere.
A History lesson for trendy simpletons.
I think too it portrays African Americans as greedy and over sexed simpletons who just want to make money and have a good time.
The bachelor was filled with amazement when he heard Sancho's phraseology and style of talk, for though he had read the first part of his master's history he never thought that he could be so droll as he was there described; but now, hearing him talk of a "will and codicil that could not be provoked," instead of "will and codicil that could not be revoked," he believed all he had read of him, and set him down as one of the greatest simpletons of modern times; and he said to himself that two such lunatics as master and man the world had never seen.
Though it is not they that are in fault, but the simpletons that extol them, and the fools that believe in them; and had I been the faithful duenna I should have been, his stale conceits would have never moved me, nor should I have been taken in by such phrases as 'in death I live,' 'in ice I burn,' 'in flames I shiver,' 'hopeless I hope,' 'I go and stay,' and paradoxes of that sort which their writings are full of.