slow-witted
Example Sentences
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The old car’s touch-screen user interface was underpowered, slow-witted and limited.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 25, 2025
Of the two it is understood that Robert Zemeckis’ slow-witted hero launched him to icon status.
From Salon • Jul. 7, 2024
What’s strange is that its M.V.P. is neither of the leads but rather Barry Keoghan, as the slow-witted neighborhood boy Dominic, who steals every scene he’s in.
From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2022
Only the most slow-witted dullards, or delusional contrarians, continue to embrace the theory of moon-landing fakery.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 2019
At suppertime my mother came in to ask if I were ill, and being too slow-witted to invent an ailment, I got up and went down to the meal.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
