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dumb
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deaf and dumb
unable to hear or speak. (Used without any intended malice, but no longer considered polite. Sometimes euphemized as "hearing and speech impaired.") Fred objected to being called deaf and dumb. Aunt Clara—she was deaf and dumb, you know—lived to be over 100.
See also: and, deaf

How dumb do you think I am?

Inf. Your question is insulting. I am not stupid. (Shows agitation. An answer is not expected or desired.) Mary: Are you really going to sell your new car? Sally: Come on! How dumb do you think I am? Tom: Do you think you could sneak into that theater without paying? Bob: Good grief! How dumb do you think I am?
See also: how, think

play ignorant and play dumb

to pretend to be ignorant [of something]. I played ignorant even though I knew about the surprise party. John played dumb when I asked him if he knew who had been on the telephone.
See also: play
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Byline: GEORGE TYNDALE FURTHER evidence emerges of the dumbing down of standards, this time courtesy of the annual list of the most popular children's names.
How to lumber your kids with a celebrity name by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
DECADES of dumbing down in education have cost the economy pounds 9bn as hundreds of thousands of teenagers turn their backs on maths, a report warned today.
High cost of maths failure by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
The software was today backed by the city's education chiefs but a parents group branded it another example of "the dumbing down" of schooling.
WHY TEXTING IS RIGHT 4 KIDS; EXCLUSIV: EROWOVER'DUMBING DOWN' IN ... by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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