thick-witted
Example Sentences
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I hope," writes this big-boned Latvian Count, who has penned two U. S. best sellers,� "I hope that all Pharisees, all Philistines, all nitwits, the bourgeois, the humorless, the thick-witted, will be deeply, thoroughly hurt.
From Time Magazine Archive
No one wonders except the thick-witted Hollywood types who want to know if Jethro went to Eton as a boy.
From Time Magazine Archive
And as the tutoring classes he conducted around examination times grew with the years in size and fame, he constituted himself "brain coach" to many a thick-witted Yale athlete, gratis.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Havana the day before soldiers had laid hands on Machado's thick-witted brother Carlos near the Cabana Fortress.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dove was so thick-witted he had no idea anything unusual was afoot.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
