half-wit

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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

In a precious outtake, Mick Jagger, as Robards' half-wit nephew, declaims the opening speech from Richard III with berserk authority.

From Time Magazine Archive

“A plot against me. You're all in it, every one of you. Someone’s paid this half-wit, I tell you. Paid him to tell his string of dirty lies.”

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier