Definition of "simpleton" [sim•ple•ton]

• A person who is felt to be deficient in judgment, good sense, or intelligence; a fool. (noun)

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• "And it means you engage in simpleton, “just world” thinking."
• "But now when an Egyptian simpleton is tortured by the hands of a Libyan officer - a government representative - in an official police station for a prolonged period of time with the intention of torture and homicide, and when the guy is shipped back in a pile to spend the rest of his life incapacitated - when all of that happens, will we see thousands of Islamists demonstrating in his defense?"
• "A certain simpleton was once walking along, haling his ass after him by the halter, when a pair of sharpers saw him and one said to his fellow, “I will take that ass from yonder wight.”"