I can't honestly agree that it was quite as dumb as one or two subsequent remarks of Wolfe's might seem to indicate.

"You can't get away with making an offensive or dumb remark and assume it won't get out."

It was a dumb remark, he knew, but he could not think of anything better.

"That dumb remark of yours about love," she said.

The funny thing is, I thought she was enjoying it, too, till all of a sudden she came out with this very dumb remark.

She would never have taken up with him again if it weren't for your dumb remark.

That strikes me as a dumb remark, and I tell him so.

There were and have been a lot of dumb remarks made about others, and I didn't want it to happen to me.

His "gullible and dumb" remarks in the tape further enrages them.

Left wing publications would rather discuss their occasional offensive or dumb remark.