obtuseness
Example Sentences
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He plays the victim vividly and is quite adept at showing the obtuseness of a know-it-all.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2024
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
During his year “in-country,” he witnessed truly surreal incompetence, obtuseness, irrationality, waste and lethal vainglory.
From Washington Post • Aug. 2, 2021
The obtuseness of privilege — and the mania that aims to preserve it with absurd rituals and at unimaginable emotional cost — get a thorough workout, even in such a short play.
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
