half-wit
Example Sentences
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In his withering 1950 essay “The Simple Art of Murder,” Raymond Chandler wrote that the solution to Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express” was so far-fetched that “only a half-wit could guess it.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2017
Back to playing a man-child very much in the mold of his “Hangover” character, which is to say someone who is a quarter of the way to being a half-wit.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2016
Richard Armstrong conducted with incisive intelligence, the orchestra was phenomenal and the lineup of creepy, half-wit suitors, led by Andrew Shore, Christopher Turner and Ryland Davies, completed a mesmerising night.
From The Guardian • Sep. 25, 2010
They say to any newspaperman who will listen that I am a sort of wild half-wit brought up on the Cornish moors .
From Time Magazine Archive
I bet she can’t wait to get back to her know-it-all friends and tell them how Jane McKeene is a mad half-wit that believes in invisible creatures swimming around in our blood.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
