puzzle-headed

I should have gone on, but he stayed there thinking over the mangled rabbit in a puzzle-headed way.

The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 2006

It is most necessary to defend you from your friends — from such friends as the veteran and inveterate M. Arsene Houssaye, or the industrious but puzzle-headed M. Loiseleur.

Letters to Dead Authors 2006

He seemed to think, that he for once had been duped; and very luckily his rage was averted from me to the daroga, who he very freely accused of being a puzzle-headed fool, and one who had no more pretension to law than _he_ had to honesty.

The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan James Morier

Mathews, a puzzle-headed and hot-tempered man, fought with spirit but in a disorderly way, breaking the formation of his fleet, and showing no power of direction.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

But he was puzzle-headed, and had never been shaken from his life-long complacency by circumstances.

The Grey Room Eden Phillpotts 1911

That was a nice question for a puzzle-headed jury to answer.

The Man Who Lost Himself 1907

I should have gone on, but he stayed there thinking over the mangled rabbit in a puzzle-headed way.

The Island of Doctor Moreau 1906

The will and intelligence which dictated the Reconstruction belonged to a very different man, a man entitled to a place not with puzzle-headed pedants or coat-turning professionals but with the great tyrants of history.

A History of the United States Cecil Chesterton 1898

I should have gone on, but he stayed there thinking over the mangled rabbit in a puzzle-headed way.

The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 1896

I should have gone on, but he stayed there thinking over the mangled rabbit in a puzzle-headed way.

How the Beast Folk Taste Blood Herbert George 1896