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Recent Examples of dweeb
Just what, exactly, is so relatable about the slapstick odyssey of this unfortunate white-collar dweeb?
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Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 12 Nov. 2025
While Peters veers closer to a stock villain — the ubiquitous empowered dweeb, though those coding-sequence tattoo sleeves are a nice embellishment — Hasan Minhaj and Arturo Castro are appealing as Eve’s ENCOM associates.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025
Brooke portrays Penny, an alpha dweeb on a mission to take down the cool kids.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
Ashley Brooke as Penny: An alpha dweeb on a mission to take down the cool kids.
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 12 Sep. 2025
In nearly every comics appearance, Olsen is inherently something of a dweeb; a hanger-on to Lois and Clark who looks up to them and doesn’t always get respect back.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 16 July 2025
Nate, as a scared-of-his-own-shadow dweeb.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dweeb
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Good-looking nerds with glamorous jobs, but still nerds.—
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The award for cinematic and box office achievement went to Sinners, so Göransson was able to take the stage on the telecast (as a key member of the creative team of Ryan Coogler’s film), though only music nerds would have been able to ID him.—
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Since the show’s premiere in March 2024, Burnett’s Norma has been set up as a money- and status-hungry snob, willing to do just about anything to have others do her bidding and maintain her opulent lifestyle amongst the highest of high society.—
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Among coffee snobs—call them MAMICs La Marzocco is deservedly famous for its technical finesse, producing superb shots time and again.—
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Overwhelmingly, though, the most common response was to seek confirmation of their suspicions that Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were morons.—
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There are worse things than watching Black, Rudd, and Zahn play three gormless morons on a mid-life misadventure, but almost every scene and setpiece is constructed with a haphazardness that blunders away their charm.—
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Military brat, mom and dad both served in the Army.—
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Thanks in no small part to paparazzi pictures of Charli XCX smoking, including at her wedding in Hackney, East London, cigarettes have become irrevocably associated with the brat aesthetic.—
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He was denounced by rebel propagandists as a tyrant and remembered by Americans as a reactionary dolt.—
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Woke scolds and anti-woke dolts alike objected to the image of Carpenter kneeling in front of a man who appears to be using her hair as a leash.—
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The Dolphins got the snot kicked out of them in the second half — AGAIN — because that’s what this 2025 team does, no matter who is under center since Miami’s been outscored 113-27 in the third quarter.—
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Billy Bob said his father knocked the snot out of him routinely.—
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Monica invites to dinner an old friend from high school, Will, who was an even bigger dork than Ross back in the day.—
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Putting it simply, Mackenzie’s a dork; a sheepish science guy whose awe of Samus and bumbling demeanor set the duo up as a typical odd couple.—
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Insulting this imbecile became the most rewarding pastime on earth.—
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Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy.—
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“Dweeb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dweeb. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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