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dull-wittedness

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  • Why not just open up a Guinness stout and celebrate the dull-wittedness of the ‘dr’?

    Think Progress » Despite Running A Health Industry ‘Trade Association,’ Gingrich Says He Will Not Register As A Lobbyist 2010

  • Their dull-wittedness and prejudice blinds them, sheilding them from realizing that the more disillusioned and disenfranchised people this war generates; the jobless, homeless, and the more dead friends and family, THE MORE INSURGENTS AND TERRORISTS WE CREATE, that hate america and americans even more!

    Think Progress » Fox News Pundit: Civil War In Iraq Is ‘Positive,’ Shows America Is ‘Winning’ 2006

  • Cricket bi racket making noise whole evening cricket cricking with possesses their might cricket dull-wittedness and the strange roar cricket causes me long … Sound

    Wind Chimes 2004

  • Cricket bi racket making noise whole evening cricket cricking with possesses their might cricket dull-wittedness and the strange roar cricket causes me long … Sound

    Wind Chimes 2004

  • Then he stood idly staring, with the heavy dull-wittedness of the Swabian peasant.

    A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg 1905

  • Hastening to the office in the morning, or hastening home (probably to cook their own dinner) at night, they read those clever, carefully worded articles and speeches by the men of power and weight, harping upon the charm and beauty and superiority of the Home Woman; and they laugh across to each other with a frank, rather pitying, rather irritated laughter, at the extraordinary dull-wittedness of some brilliant brains.

    Winding Paths Gertrude Page 1897

  • Of mixed race, she was a little dishevelled and something in her demeanour spoke not of dull-wittedness but of personal dislocation.

    Top stories from Times Online 2010

  • It is a measure of Brendan’s dull-wittedness that on ketamine he appears slightly more vivacious than usual.

    Horse power 2010

  • It is a measure of Brendan’s dull-wittedness that on ketamine he appears slightly more vivacious than usual.

    Horse power 2010

  • She creased the newspaper she’d been perusing and feigned a look of extreme dull-wittedness, extreme torpor, a parody, he soon realized, of Ponic himself.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

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