Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective mentally retarded; relatively slow in mental function.
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- adjective Being a
dimwit ;stupid ;foolish ;simple .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking mental capacity and subtlety
Etymologies
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Examples
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The more you try to dig out of the very deep hole you dug for yourself, the more childish, mendacious, and dim-witted you sound.
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Sanchez assumed that Stewart and Colbert were both anti-Hispanic bigots because they were constantly lampooning him as an anti-intellectual, dim-witted buffoon.
Dan Sweeney: It's the Stupid, Stupid: Rick Sanchez Fired for the Wrong Reasons
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People shriek about the portrayal of Teabaggers in Captain America, but have no problem with the dim-witted idea of 100,000 Kryptonians immigrating to Earth or the Green Goblin being put in charge of National Security.
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The more you try to dig out of the very deep hole you dug for yourself, the more childish, mendacious, and dim-witted you sound.
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Fleischer has some fun when his dim-witted soldier is suddenly imbued with knowledge and insight not a great thing, apparently after dying, getting some laughs out of his desire to imagine a friendship between himself and Tom on one hand and dashing off Arabic and philosophical nuggets on the other.
Michael Giltz: Theater: Robin Williams, Yes; Bengal Tiger, No
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Do you think we will be awed by the number of nubile, dim-witted, improbably large-breasted young ladies your middle-aged "narrator" sleeps with in the throes of his midlife crisis, after leaving his wrinkled shrew of a wife?
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When the dim-witted GOP base hears the word "revolution", they think of the violent kind of revolution, not the procedural kind that (I hope) Sen. Alexander is talking about.
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Isn't it nice how, with unemployment as high as it is, there are people on both sides that don't need to work and, therefore, can spend weeks on end brainwashing the dim-witted at town hall meetings?
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Do you think we will be awed by the number of nubile, dim-witted, improbably large-breasted young ladies your middle-aged "narrator" sleeps with in the throes of his midlife crisis, after leaving his wrinkled shrew of a wife?
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The fact that the dim-witted and near-sighted MPAA has slapped an NC-17 rating on Steve McQueen's Shame implies that there is something prurient about this film, whose central figure is a sex addict, struggling with his demons.
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