slow-witted
Example Sentences
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“The consequences of putting on the street officers who, however highly educated, are prejudiced, or slow witted, or hot tempered, or timid, or dishonest are too obvious to require detailed discussion.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2016
But Dasch and some of the other saboteurs thought Heinck was "slow witted."
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
Nay, if he objects to lying in ambuscade," said the slow witted Le Balafre, looking sorrowfully at the Lord Crawford, "I am afraid, my lord, that all is over with him!
From Quentin Durward by Scott, Walter, Sir
The people are not so slow witted as the few who take pride in their superior brilliancy imagine.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
His slow witted mind harbored deadly rancor for former days, when we were in command.
From Astounding Stories, July, 1931 by Various
