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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Stupid and silly people
airhead
berk
birdbrain
blithering idiot
blockhead
dumb-ass
dummy
dunce
dunderhead
eejit
mutt
need
need your head examinedidiom
nimrod
nincompoop
simpleton
stupid
thicko
tosser
troglodyte

Examples from literature

Dullards, unless their brains are stunted, may develop surprising intellectual keenness. 
I am taking him not to be a dullard but a poet. 
In tracing the natural history of a public-house I have found the respectable dullards the most revolting of my subjects. 
No man but a dullard without a spark of imagination could have witnessed the scene presented at that moment without experiencing a thrill which he would have found it difficult to describe. 
Only dullards, or the unthinking, can be surprised by the ease with which a quick-witted man, having some knowledge of Latin, can learn to read a novel in French, Italian, or Spanish.