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单词 lamebrain
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Definition of lamebrain in English:

lamebrain

nounˈleɪmbreɪnˈleɪmˌbreɪn
informal
  • A stupid person.

    〈非正式〉笨蛋,呆子

    I was never one of those lamebrains who thought cop work was glamorous
    as modifier lamebrain driving
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The second point is undoubtedly true - there has been research to support it - but the rest of the article is lamebrain stuff.
    • I know that the regsiter isn't really meant to be a serious news source, but come on, lamebrain.
    • The article does its best to make the organizations concerned sound sinister - all political lamebrains love ‘conspiracy’ theories - but there is only one secret to their influence - they present the facts in a thoroughly scholarly way.
    • But Cyber Patrol lamebrains picked an argument with us.
    • I always knew Matthew Sweet could write rings around them, but I didn't realize just how much those lamebrains would dampen his gifts.
    • ‘Yeah,’ the big lamebrain, finally releasing my shoulder, spoke out in an unimpressive lisped voice.
    • Perhaps the Lefty blogger is such a lamebrain that he does not know what ‘rebuttable’ means.
    • Here you have someone who is obviously a talented politician (if playing for the wrong team - the GOP, that is) and he can't be allowed to run for higher office because of the prejudices of a bunch of medieval lamebrains.
    • Then turn away and hope the lamebrain has learned something.
    • Why don't you just shut your mouth you lamebrain?
    • So when some snotty filmmaker uses a lamebrain stunt as a way of proving McDonald's is making you fat, or when CSPI tries to tell you that now milk is part of the problem of childhood obesity, tell them, ‘It's common sense, stupid.’
    • He is another lamebrain whose considerable talents are hampered by an out-of-control belligerency that's better suited to a raucous schoolyard game.
    • You're here with Conner and I doubt he wants to hear even more junk about that lamebrain.
    • They were known to be lamebrains and loudmouthed.
    • Now when you have some lamebrain campaign where there's someone attempting to rap or do a jingle that mimics a style of rap, it comes off corny because it's obvious that someone didn't do their homework.
    • If I told her I was being a lamebrain and Bruce has been floating around in my mind for God knows how long, she would be all up in my space.
    • It was a lamebrain excuse on behalf of the Bahamian government to try to cut down on expenditure.
    • And if you actually have a friend who has pitched a film or even an after-school special to the decision-making suits, you will be pre-acquainted with what it takes to satisfy a high tribunal of lamebrains, hypocrites, and thieves.
    • A few superficial similarities are seized on by some writer and then the rest of the Leftist lamebrains can proclaim that bombers and beheaders are the same as builders of schools and hospitals.
    • Is the original line really so obscure that some lamebrain who has absent-mindedly wandered in off the street going to have difficulty with it?
    Synonyms
    idiot, ass, halfwit, nincompoop, blockhead, buffoon, dunce, dolt, ignoramus, cretin, imbecile, dullard, moron, simpleton, clod

Derivatives

  • lamebrained

  • adjective
    informal
    • A lot of people remember him for lamebrained mishandling of the transport brief, but for most of us, it's the fact that he liked to have sex while wearing his socks that will have him forever etched in our collective memory.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • More harmful to Wagner's reputation over the long term has been his virulent, lamebrained, and lifelong anti-Semitism.
      • It was a lamebrained scheme that Pyle lamely defends by telling Fowler: ‘In war you use the tools you have.’
      • To some lamebrained executive at Warner Bros. that must have made sense since Reagan and Sheridan had co-starred in the 1942 box office hit, King's Row.
      • What is it about sex and death - and their corollaries, nudity and violence, poverty and disease - that perverts the parental protection instinct into this kind of lamebrained, censorious overdrive?

Definition of lamebrain in US English:

lamebrain

nounˈleɪmˌbreɪnˈlāmˌbrān
informal
  • A stupid person.

    〈非正式〉笨蛋,呆子

    I was never one of those lamebrains who thought cop work was glamorous
    as modifier lamebrain driving
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A few superficial similarities are seized on by some writer and then the rest of the Leftist lamebrains can proclaim that bombers and beheaders are the same as builders of schools and hospitals.
    • And if you actually have a friend who has pitched a film or even an after-school special to the decision-making suits, you will be pre-acquainted with what it takes to satisfy a high tribunal of lamebrains, hypocrites, and thieves.
    • I always knew Matthew Sweet could write rings around them, but I didn't realize just how much those lamebrains would dampen his gifts.
    • Now when you have some lamebrain campaign where there's someone attempting to rap or do a jingle that mimics a style of rap, it comes off corny because it's obvious that someone didn't do their homework.
    • He is another lamebrain whose considerable talents are hampered by an out-of-control belligerency that's better suited to a raucous schoolyard game.
    • The second point is undoubtedly true - there has been research to support it - but the rest of the article is lamebrain stuff.
    • Is the original line really so obscure that some lamebrain who has absent-mindedly wandered in off the street going to have difficulty with it?
    • I know that the regsiter isn't really meant to be a serious news source, but come on, lamebrain.
    • But Cyber Patrol lamebrains picked an argument with us.
    • Perhaps the Lefty blogger is such a lamebrain that he does not know what ‘rebuttable’ means.
    • Here you have someone who is obviously a talented politician (if playing for the wrong team - the GOP, that is) and he can't be allowed to run for higher office because of the prejudices of a bunch of medieval lamebrains.
    • It was a lamebrain excuse on behalf of the Bahamian government to try to cut down on expenditure.
    • They were known to be lamebrains and loudmouthed.
    • Why don't you just shut your mouth you lamebrain?
    • Then turn away and hope the lamebrain has learned something.
    • The article does its best to make the organizations concerned sound sinister - all political lamebrains love ‘conspiracy’ theories - but there is only one secret to their influence - they present the facts in a thoroughly scholarly way.
    • ‘Yeah,’ the big lamebrain, finally releasing my shoulder, spoke out in an unimpressive lisped voice.
    • You're here with Conner and I doubt he wants to hear even more junk about that lamebrain.
    • So when some snotty filmmaker uses a lamebrain stunt as a way of proving McDonald's is making you fat, or when CSPI tries to tell you that now milk is part of the problem of childhood obesity, tell them, ‘It's common sense, stupid.’
    • If I told her I was being a lamebrain and Bruce has been floating around in my mind for God knows how long, she would be all up in my space.
    Synonyms
    idiot, ass, halfwit, nincompoop, blockhead, buffoon, dunce, dolt, ignoramus, cretin, imbecile, dullard, moron, simpleton, clod
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