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For many enthusiasts, these innovations make the game more appealing and even addictive, enabling duffers on public courses to command drives and putts that golfers floundering on the sandy Scottish links more than 600 years ago could never imagine.
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Miles Corwin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 June 2025
Finally, and a must for a duffer like me, is a quirky little nine-hole golf course — Chula Vista — that’s monstrously hilly, twisting, tree-and-ravine-laden, with impossible slanting greens.
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Andy Shaw,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Apr. 2025
Not candlelight dinners for two old duffers plodding along, but an act of kindness so needed, especially during rough times.
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Bulletin Board,
Twin Cities,
6 Oct. 2024
Plenty a duffer who opposed the invasion of Iraq and the privatization of Social Security has gone on to invoke the line in admiring jest.
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Ben McGrath,
The New Yorker,
29 July 2024
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Miles Corwin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 June 2025
Finally, and a must for a duffer like me, is a quirky little nine-hole golf course — Chula Vista — that’s monstrously hilly, twisting, tree-and-ravine-laden, with impossible slanting greens.
—
Andy Shaw,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Apr. 2025
Not candlelight dinners for two old duffers plodding along, but an act of kindness so needed, especially during rough times.
—
Bulletin Board,
Twin Cities,
6 Oct. 2024
Plenty a duffer who opposed the invasion of Iraq and the privatization of Social Security has gone on to invoke the line in admiring jest.
—
Ben McGrath,
The New Yorker,
29 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for duffer
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The stumblebum energy disarms us, which makes the gruesome cruelty of the kills that much more disturbing.
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As opposed to palookas and has-beens and tin cans and stumblebums, a player who got waived departed with his dignity intact.
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Rather, those with lower incomes and who earn lower returns are much likelier in Morningstar’s simulation to clean their accounts out, using the cash to buy a car, pay for an education or just make ends meet.
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The simulation found that stress on two of the three fault segments had reached or exceeded the highest levels seen during the past 1,000 years.
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The league’s most popular player has become its biggest lout.
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Suddenly, these two louts are forced to support themselves for the first time.
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For the most part, all cucumbers have waxy skin, whether the naturally-occurring kind or synthetic.
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Beside the striping and F50 branding, the F50 Formotion leans heavily into the retro running look, which often also features metallic silver, with its application of synthetic overlays over a mesh base.
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In a case pending in federal court in Oakland, California, three Facebook users allege that the company profits from online swindles at the expense of users.
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Supporting characters add to the plot, as Chance needs help from his former crew, most of whom have gone straight but can’t resist the lure of the swindle.
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“Duffer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duffer. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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