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doofuses

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for doofuses.

Editorial note

The government is not a company regardless of how many doofuses want to run it like one.

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Quick take

(slang, derogatory, sometimes affectionately, humorous) A person with poor judgment and taste; a foolish or silly person.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

(slang, derogatory, sometimes affectionately, humorous) A person with poor judgment and taste; a foolish or silly person.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for doofuses.

noun

(slang, derogatory, sometimes affectionately, humorous) A person with poor judgment and taste; a foolish or silly person.

Example sentences

1

The government is not a company regardless of how many doofuses want to run it like one.

2

The reason is simple, the callcenters are either absolute doofuses barely capable of following a script or they're artificially restricted by the script.

3

Also the more you post here the more you realize how many doofuses there are here (not naming names).

4

Seriously, doofuses like Topiary give the legit hacking community a bad name and obfuscate genuine governmental and corporate abuse.

5

Maybe they have some way to track emissions back to the source too, every one of these doofuses needs arresting.

6

If you fire 10 doofuses a year for shitty work, you can just get 10 more within just a few days.

7

A better chance at Darpa than selling it to the doofuses at the big motor companies, where it would certainly be shelved.

8

It sounds like you had interviews from irritating doofuses that thought they were brilliant.

9

Oh man, a 2008-type event with these doofuses in charge will be amazing...

10

Don't be one of those 'everything is subjective' doofuses, please.

11

Poor little Facebook, such adorable little bumbling doofuses.

12

And then you've got doofuses protesting in favor?

Quote examples

1

The "older doofuses who didn’t understand the Web" seemed to have done pretty well with CollegeHumor and Vimeo without Jake.

2

I, too, prefer to use the keyboard as much as possible but I've also encountered doofuses that mock that position because the mouse is "so convenient" and "there's no way it's faster to use the keyboard entirely".

3

(Remember "DirectX 10 requires the power of Vista", which requires a much faster computer that XP?) And the other problem is that doofuses like the article writer have been so thoroughly gulled by the planned-obsolence treadmill that they actually think that's how it's supposed to be, and throw tantrums if this year's hardware isn't at least 10 times shinier and more sparkly than last year's.

4

Can we please go back to "You have to make an account on our server to contribute or pull from the git?" One of the biggest problems is the fact that the public nature of Github means that fixes are worth "Faux Internet Points" and a bunch of doofuses at companies like Google made "social contribution" part of the dumbass employee evaluation process.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use doofuses in a sentence?

The government is not a company regardless of how many doofuses want to run it like one.

What does doofuses mean?

(slang, derogatory, sometimes affectionately, humorous) A person with poor judgment and taste; a foolish or silly person.

What part of speech is doofuses?

doofuses is commonly used as noun.