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blockhead

How to use blockhead in a sentence

It is in vain to attempt to turn a very rich blockhead into ridicule, for the laughers will be on his side.

A great lord says of214 your friend Timagenes that he is a blockhead, but he makes a mistake.

I do not require you to reply that Timagenes is a clever man, but only dare think he is not a blockhead.

But you are a blockhead, and it is tiresome to have to do with you.

Sometimes the teacher lost patience with him, and generally concluded: "Go back to your place, you are a blockhead."

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She rushed past her, hurried down stairs, and called out, "Bid my blockhead bring my unicorn."

He said I was not only a wild Welshman and a blockhead, but what is more deadly still, I was a gorilla and an assassin.

But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms!

He began to be of Jem's opinion, that he had shown himself a blockhead, and resolved to act differently in future.

It sometimes begins middle or final syllables in words compounded, as blockhead; or derived from the Latin, as comprehend.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985