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176 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:

French > English

Subject:

Other

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

piètre imbécile

Context:

Vous êtes vraiment un piètre imbécile. Vous ne savez pas ce que vous manquez. Charlotte...

Keywords:

...est une fill formidable et...Something like "stupid lamebrain?"

 

 

The answer of Geoff Bing  See profile was rated best

worthless/useless idiot

My comment:

lamebrain would be good if you're aiming for a US audience, since it's not used much in UK English... consider where the text is set and whether you want to make it modern US or not...