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- noun The state or condition of being
blockheaded .
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Examples
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On the other hand, I think there is a special kind of blockheadedness involved, above and beyond the usual, when a self-proclaimed state socialist partisan goes around calling for an emergency mobilisation of society, a five-year plan to achieve a drastic reorientation of our economy without just choking on his own words, and somebody else reprints it—indeed makes this quote the tagline for the article—without even the least hint of irony or embarrassment.
I can’t make out what you’re trying to say on account of the corpse in your mouth. 2008
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Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?
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Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?
Tony Kushner At The School Of Visual Arts: 'Artists Know That Diligence Counts As Much, If Not More, As Inspiration' The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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In the world of private business, no CEO could get away with this level of incompetence, ineptitude, failure and blockheadedness.
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Those who incessantly sigh over the blockheadedness of everyone else here are repaid according to their works, as they should be.
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How He bears with us in our worse and more inexcusable blockheadedness!
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And though there are many fine, dedicated, and compassionate police officers, blockheadedness and insensitivity are often hallmarks of their unions' rhetoric - check out Pax Centurion, the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association newsletter, if you're in any doubt.
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If tugging on Superman's cape and spitting into the wind are no-nos, then messing around with Rush Limbaugh - while donning the apocryphal moniker of conservative - is sheer blockheadedness.
Latest Articles 2009
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The liberal, astonished by the libertarian’s blockheadedness, retorts, but don’t you understand?
The Volokh Conspiracy » So a Libertarian and a Liberal Walk into a Bar 2010
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