obtuseness

Example Sentences

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His righteous moral obtuseness is the most chilling note in this production.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2023

One of the great Twitter accounts documenting this is called VCs Congratulating Themselves—a collection of venture capitalists posting with mind-blowing obtuseness.

From Slate • Nov. 10, 2023

As Mister, Ebert manages the virtuoso trick of making obtuseness both weird and charming, at least for a while.

From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2021

During his year “in-country,” he witnessed truly surreal incompetence, obtuseness, irrationality, waste and lethal vainglory.

From Washington Post • Aug. 2, 2021

I had never encountered such obtuseness in a first-class hotel, and I told them so, but this only increased their inhospitality.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin