stumbler

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Noun
  • Plenty a duffer who opposed the invasion of Iraq and the privatization of Social Security has gone on to invoke the line in admiring jest.
    Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
  • Many duffers would pick two-time major PGA Tour champion John Daly, whose on-and-off course feats have become legend.
    Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 14 July 2024
Noun
  • As opposed to palookas and has-beens and tin cans and stumblebums, a player who got waived departed with his dignity intact.
    Joe Queenan, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2018
  • The physicians lining up with Teirstein are not a bunch of stumblebums afraid of a few tests.
    Kurt Eichenwald, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2015
Noun
  • And when someone does cross the line, like the louts who doused cops in Harlem and Brownsville with water in 2019, most officers have shown remarkable restraint.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2024
  • That’s the memorable insult that James Kennedy (the DJ of the group) hurled at Tom Sandoval (the resident lout) last season after Sandoval — who had a girlfriend — became romantically involved with Kennedy’s ex-girlfriend.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2024
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“Stumbler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stumbler. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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