Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a weak head or intellect.

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Examples

  • She grows old, and weak-headed, and she traffics over-much with sorceries. '

    SHIN-BONES 2010

  • This Republican Thanksgiving Day message to the nation is fatuous in the fullest sense of the word (asinine, brainless, foolish, sheepheaded, silly, unwitty, weak-headed, weak-minded, and witless).

    Pence slams Obama, Dems in GOP's holiday message 2009

  • Sir Galefrid was not an evil man, but he was a weak-headed one, shortsighted and undisciplined and easily led.

    THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010

  • The Examiner attributed the surprise to “negligence and bad management” by “a few vain and weak-headed officers,” who had conducted cavalry operations as if it were “a tournament.”

    Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008

  • The Examiner attributed the surprise to “negligence and bad management” by “a few vain and weak-headed officers,” who had conducted cavalry operations as if it were “a tournament.”

    Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008

  • They were vain, weak-headed young men, ridiculously confident, and preposterously proud of their plan; for they got a gimcrack painting made, of the six choice spirits who were to murder Elizabeth, with Babington in an attitude for the centre figure.

    A Child's History of England 2007

  • … Several friends said Bush has always been perceived by his father as a “weak-headed” and difficult child … Another suggested Jeb would assume the mantle of “despised” Bush son if George W. becomes President.

    Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: The Return of the Speculum Set 2006

  • To forestall a lot of weak-headed commentary, trust me, I am just as upset at those in my own age group who did not vote--there were just less of them. n.b.

    Booming Babies Still Want Bidey Rogers 2005

  • ‘The Papa of Rome sent his emissaries at an early period amongst us,’ said the Armenian, ‘seducing the minds of weak-headed people, persuading them that the hillocks of Rome are higher than the ridges of Ararat; that the Roman Papa has more to say in heaven than the Armenian patriarch, and that puny Latin is a better language than nervous and sonorous Haik.’

    Lavengro 2004

  • It seemed that from such a basis of truth and frankness as the poor weak-headed pauper had laid, our intercourse might go forward to something better than the intercourse of sages.

    Walden 2004

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