blockhead

• We may smile when he calls a blockhead, a blockhead; a dotard, a dotard; but when he attacks, for a difference of opinion, the morals of another man, our sensibility is alarmed. —  Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
• The Parable of the Monk and the Stupid Woman The confused or unenlightened may be compared with a monk and a stupid woman in a Japanese parable which runs as follows: "One evening a monk (who was used to have his head shaved clean), getting drunk against the moral precepts, visited a woman, known as a blockhead, at her house. —  The Religion of the Samurai A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan
• So in the prognostication or sinister events of affairs they would have every one in his party blind or a blockhead, and that our persuasion and judgment should subserve not truth, but to the project of our desires. —  The Essays of Montaigne — Complete
• A porter is a porter, and a blockhead is a fool, without a college of fathers to promote them to those positions You are a Carlist And why not? —  The Magic Skin
• Now, you know, I never had a play dedicated to ME Rosa looked at him as if she would have liked him to be the recipient of a thousand dedications Which again, naturally, rubs against the grain of Mr. Bazzard,' said Mr. Grewgious. 'He is very short with me sometimes, and then I feel that he is meditating, "This blockhead is my master! —  The Mystery of Edwin Drood

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