Anything that can't be pronounced stops the verbal music, makes the reader stumble and marks the writer as a nitwit.

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The polls professing satisfaction may mask an alienation, just below the surface, and a generalized disgust at everyone: the screaming media, the nitwit Congress, the ignoble President.

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One network nitwit even said the market could have only gone up the way it did today because someone somewhere knows that there already is a deal that will save the world.

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These claims are part of a propaganda campaign against our country by evil nitwit Uzbekistan who, as we all know, are a very nosey people with a bone in the middle of their brain.

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She plays Rita Skeeter, a nitwit journalist who gets everything wrong. (That's the only false note.) Daniel Radcliffe has grown in the title role, not just chronologically, while Rupert Grint, as Ron Weasley, and Emma Watson as Hermione, are spunkier and funnier than ever.

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