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- noun The state or condition of being
knuckleheaded ;foolishness orineptitude .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The reason for these reminders of my knuckleheadedness is a little ditty I wrote about a south Denver woman who found herself flying at 80 mph down West Yale Avenue after the floor mat of her 2001 Nissan Maxima grabbed and trapped her car's accelerator.
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The reason for these reminders of my knuckleheadedness is a little ditty I wrote about a south Denver woman who found herself flying at 80 mph down West Yale Avenue after the floor mat of her 2001 Nissan Maxima grabbed and trapped her car's accelerator.
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It's Emmy nominations day -- that one day a year when the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences unveils its candidates for the industry's highest honor, and rabid fans of such shows as "Lost," "American Idol," "Real Time With Bill Maher" and "Two and a Half Men" set aside their differences and join hands to celebrate their shared view on the general knuckleheadedness of the academy in its choices.
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It's Emmy nominations day -- that one day a year when the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences unveils its candidates for the industry's highest honor, and rabid fans of such shows as "Lost," "American Idol," "Real Time With Bill Maher" and "Two and a Half Men" set aside their differences and join hands to celebrate their shared view on the general knuckleheadedness of the academy in its choices.
TV Column: Lisa de Moraes on the 2010 Emmy Award nominations 2010
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On Wikipedia every new contribution goes through a series of checks, which attempt to weed out fraud, self-interest, simple knuckleheadedness, and pranks.
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As I've said before, 30 Rock is half as stuffy and didactic as its subjectmate Studio 60, twice as astute about the real problems of TV corporate interference and general knuckleheadedness and ten times as funny.
30 Rock and Twenty Good Years: Scripts 2, Actors 0 - Tuned In - TIME.com 2006
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The new Michael Vick - the Vick who takes football seriously, who spends his off days speaking to students about the perils of knuckleheadedness - is far more appealing.
NYT > Home Page By WILLIAM C. RHODEN 2010
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Long on ignorance, of understanding shorn, each punched in knuckleheadedness, the others
Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2010
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The new Michael Vick - the Vick who takes football seriously, who spends his off days speaking to students about the perils of knuckleheadedness - is far more appealing.
NYT > Home Page By WILLIAM C. RHODEN 2010
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This may be related to a strain of knuckleheadedness visible among the young in South Korea, who engage in possibly the world's largest and certainly best organized riots.
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