Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being muddle-headed; confusion; want of clearness of thought.
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Examples
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Any muddle-headedness should evaporate with the chance to dance and cheer for your preferred gender of beats blender as Lisa Lashes, the first lady of hard house, goes head-to-head with BBC Radio 1's Kutski, while Romanian trance she-jay Claudia Cazacu takes on Ali Wilson in room two.
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Do I take opiates for my pain, and risk addiction and muddle-headedness, or do I endure the pain and the attendant distractions and weakness?
red dust Ryn Cricket 2010
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Instead, our intellectually independent correspondent displays further ignorance and muddle-headedness, mischaracterizing the Bible, in whole or part, as a “morality tale.”
Overrated novels 2009
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Terrorism, you see, feeds on the muddle-headedness that is all things liberal.
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You are right, Melanie, to raise all these cautionary observations about Obama; at best there's terrible muddle-headedness there and I do not think the 'big picture' of his ideological mind-set at all reassures us.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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But there are so many other cases, not involving Hagee but involving what seems to me the same combination of muddle-headedness and irresponsible willingness to use any distortion or lie so long as it hurts one's adversaries and helps one's own side.
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He held strong views about the extreme simplicity of everything, only that men, in their muddle-headedness, had confounded it all.
A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006
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But through nothing in the world but a universal, various muddle-headedness, our species seemed unable to put out its hand and take the abundance within its reach.
The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006
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In a Partisan Review article, May 1948, Rahv heaped scorn on the "muddle-headedness" of liberals willing "to accept the mere fact of the abolition of bourgeois property relations as a proof of the existence of socialism."
An Exchange on the Left Howe, Irving 1967
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Subsequently Lord Boyle afforded another illustration of his "strange admixture of shrewdness and muddle-headedness."
The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1 A. M. W. [Compiler] Stirling
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