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obtusely

ADVERB
stupidly
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But it’s telling that Leon, obtusely obsessed with his disastrous book, can’t fully embrace the amorous potential of his surroundings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2023

Peter Bradshaw didn’t hold back, calling it “a pointless Hitler-spoofy YA adventure with a 12A certificate, obtusely accentuating little-kid cuteness and optimism amid the quaintly imagined non-horror” in a one-star review.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 30, 2020

“I found this part galling, because here he is sort of obtusely reinforcing the model-minority myth and model-minority stereotypes,” said Fang, who runs the blog Reappropriate, where she writes about Asian American and feminist issues.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2019

This show is a case in point, with the garage-rock-in-a-dungeon reverb traps of Thee Oh Sees, the debauched B-52’s-meets-“The Munsters” sound of Golden Triangle and the obtusely noisy lo-fi sound of So Cow.

From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2010

The neck and legs are short; the ears are likewise short, obtusely pointed, and lie close to the head.

From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Thomas Bulfinch




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