Genius
Genius noun - A very smart person.
Usage example: the 16-year-old college graduate was considered to be a genius
Nitwit
Nitwit noun - A person who lacks good sense or judgment.
Usage example: don't be a nitwit—wear a seat belt!
Both words in one sentence
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Far and away her biggest blunder was her assertion that Orson Welles did not write the screenplay of Citizen Kane and that he was a nitwit who rode the coattails of a true man of genius, Hermann Mankiewicz.
Source: Caustic Critic
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