soft-head

I love seeing him on Newsnight where blows apart the cant of the presenters and the other soft-head half-wits who come on to talk about terrorism.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

The so-called soft-head (or shrike) always settles on one and the same branch, where it falls a prey to the birdcatcher.

The History of Animals 2002

"Yes, indeed, little soft-head; come, ask papa," and with that Mrs. Tremayne -- for who should it be but lively Kat -- shouldered her small, but ambitious son, and carried him away.

Six Girls A Home Story Fannie Belle Irving

And just as the shape of our earth's surface can seem immutable as granite only to the thoughtless soft-head, but in reality only represents at each period an apparent pause in a continuous development, created by the mighty forces of Nature in a process of continuous growth, only to be transformed or destroyed tomorrow by greater forces, likewise the boundaries of living spaces in the life of nations.

Mein Kampf Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 1925

"You go to grass for a soft-head, you Jake!" muttered Merrill, as he dragged the meat out from beneath the bed.

Ramona 1921

What possessed you to be such a soft-head, _I_ don't know.

Cap'n Warren's Wards Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

She thought me a soft-head, a police stool, a squealer.

Children of the Whirlwind Leroy Scott 1902

"You go to grass for a soft-head, you Jake!" muttered Merrill, as he dragged the meat out from beneath the bed.

Ramona Helen Hunt Jackson 1857

"Great soft-head," reflected Greta, as she watched his retreating form, "he knew I was telling lies, why didn't he push past me, or -- do anything.

Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch Henry Rider Haggard 1890