beef-witted

• “The total guff he buys is instantly snapped up by beef-witted city-boy cretins to distract them from the emptiness.”

  The Guardian: Four Rooms: how to beat the experts

• “Leon had apparently managed to corner some poor woman and was no doubt sharing whatever dumb-ass theory his beef-witted brain stem was promulgating at the moment.”

  Old Mans War

• “Even so, my nephew Gerald (the present Duke of Denver) is nothing but a beef-witted English squire, and my niece Mary was flighty and foolish enough till she married a policeman and settled down.”

  Unnatural Death

• “Never was among such a beef-witted set of addlepates since I was born.”

  Austin and His Friends

• “Purple with Port, beef-witted, tyrannical, intolerant, ignorant, never happy unless when on horseback or drunk, nor looking happy then.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860

• “Even so, my nephew Gerald (the present Duke of Denver) is nothing but a beef-witted English squire, and my niece Mary was nighty and foolish enough till she married a policeman and settled down.”

  Clouds of Witness

• “The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord!”

  Act II. Scene I. Troilus and Cressida

• “It's for beef-witted squires and blear-eyed people like yourselves -- brutish, callous.”

  Gone to Earth

• “Then I did meekly remind her of her flirtatious preferences for the young beef-witted London chaps, and her incertitude and disdainful capriciousness towards myself, who was not a beetlehead or an obtuse, but a cultivated native gentleman with high-class university degree, and an oratorical flow of language which was infallibly to land me upon the pinnacle of some tip-top judicial preferment in the Calcutta High Court of Justice.”

  Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.

• “Try one of these gems out as you sail through time, you beef-witted dunnigan.”

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