short-witted

Now just such short-witted shepherds are we, the people of these free

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Various

_Borné_, literally limited, but used in French as a synonyme of short-witted, is the term that best characterizes the actions of all other animals, as compared with the graceless but amazingly versatile and well-planned pranks of our nearest relatives.

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

Jim George, a rather eccentric and "short-witted fellow," of

History of Kershaw's Brigade D. Augustus Dickert

You must find us plain, plodding Americans horribly short-witted sometimes.

Seven Miles to Arden Ruth Sawyer 1925

'A captious, long-tongued, short-witted sluggard, 'said the soldier of fortune.

Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

Dimitri, but Demitri, and in his private mind he thought her short-witted, narrow-minded, and ungracious.

The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

Holy Virgin, was brought up before Saint Thomas of Canterbury who suspended him from his charge, judging him to be short-witted and irresponsible.

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

But my free language disturbed the blind partisans of absolute power in the Church and State, and the Abbé Frayssinous, short-witted and weak though honest, obeyed with inquietude rather than reluctance the influences whose extreme violence he dreaded without condemning their exercise.

Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 John William Cole 1830

There are many that are wise to worldly ends and purposes, as our Saviour tells us; wise to get riches, and to ascend to honours; but this is not the wisdom which we are to labour after; this is but a short-witted prudence, to serve a present turn without any prospect to the future, without regard to the next world, and the eternity which we are to live in; this is to be wise for a moment, and fools for ever.

The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 06. 1630-1694 1820

“I vow there’s two short-witted blades trying to make me into mincemeat and near succeeding.

Tales of the Jazz Age 2003