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- adjective
superlative form ofobtuse : mostobtuse .
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Examples
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Olbermann has an uncanny ability to find the obtusest angle on any issue, delivering glancing blows to wide open targets.
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » 50 Most Loathesome People 2009
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Olbermann has an uncanny ability to find the obtusest angle on any issue, delivering glancing blows to wide open targets.
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » 50 Most Loathesome People 2009
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Adjective: obtuse obtuser, obtusest ub'toos 1. Lacking in insight or discernment 2. Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
From On High 2007
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It refers to the great affliction of my life, with the most affectionate intentions and the obtusest understanding.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898
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He was the most perfectly modest man I ever saw, ever imagined, but he had a gentle dignity which I do not believe any one, the coarsest, the obtusest, could trespass upon.
Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship William Dean Howells 1878
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He was the most perfectly modest man I ever saw, ever imagined, but he had a gentle dignity which I do not believe any one, the coarsest, the obtusest, could trespass upon.
White Mr. Longfellow, the (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) William Dean Howells 1878
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It refers to the great affliction of my life, with the most affectionate intentions and the obtusest understanding.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1833
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"He was the most perfectly modest man I ever saw, ever imagined, but he had a gentle dignity which I do not believe any one, the coarsest, the obtusest, could trespass upon.
Stories of Authors, British and American Edwin Watts Chubb 1912
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