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  • That way you can self-righteously point out how this had nothing to do with you, and your lack-wit followers will probably miss the sanctimony and mistakenly swallow that as a sign of strength and leadership.

    Hatch shuts door on bipartisan health care talks 2009

  • The fun of this is, of course, that the Victorians had such delicious profanity: like pea-brain, lack-wit, and ninny-hammer.

    On the Satisfaction of Victorian Profanity gailcarriger 2009

  • The fun of this is, of course, that the Victorians had such delicious profanity: like pea-brain, lack-wit, and ninny-hammer.

    On the Satisfaction of Victorian Profanity gailcarriger 2009

  • And I wanted to shout "Speak for yourself, you lack-wit advertising copywriter, you!"

    Archive 2008-12-01 Imogen 2008

  • And I wanted to shout "Speak for yourself, you lack-wit advertising copywriter, you!"

    Last day before Christmas great escape. Imogen 2008

  • Kesh stood there like a lack-wit until Magic bit his ear.

    Spirit Gate 2006

  • Alas good Lady lack-wit, little did she understand (faire assembly) how dangerous a case it is [to] deale with Schollers.

    The Decameron 2004

  • "You posturing lack-wit!" she returned, and her sunk jaws quivered angrily.

    The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages James Branch Cabell 1918

  • I did not know what to do with her; I had even renounced all attempts to teach her to read; I left her for days together in a corner, infirm and tongue-tied like a lack-wit ....

    The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 5 ��mile Zola 1871

  • I did not know what to do with her; I had even renounced all attempts to teach her to read; I left her for days together in a corner, infirm and tongue-tied like a lack-wit ....

    The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871

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