Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being wooden-headed; stupidity.
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Examples
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It is wooden-headedness, in my view, that permeates the "comprehensive, new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan" that the president announced yesterday.
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Author Tuchman points succinctly to what flows from wooden-headedness:
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One look at the national security advisers arrayed behind the president was enough to see wooden-headedness.
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Tuchman pointed to 16th Century Philip II of Spain as a kind of Nobel laureate of wooden-headedness.
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Hard as it is to believe that Bush has not learned from that repeated experience, it is at the same time possible to "misunderestimate" one's capacity for wooden-headedness, particularly with respect to someone with the psychological makeup of our president.
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A duty in that process is to keep well-informed, to heed information, to keep mind and judgment open and to resist the insidious spell of wooden-headedness.
Balkinization 2007
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We are displacing that peculiar virtue which used to be admired as hard-headedness, and which was really only wooden-headedness, with intelligence, and also we are getting rid of mushy sentimentalism.
My Life and Work Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 1922
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A hundred yards ahead of us Maga was talking and gesticulating furiously, evidently railing at Kagig's wooden-headedness or unbelief.
The Eye of Zeitoon Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920
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A hundred yards ahead of us Maga was talking and gesticulating furiously, evidently railing at Kagig's wooden-headedness or unbelief.
The Eye of Zeitoon Talbot Mundy 1909
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We are displacing that peculiar virtue which used to be admired as hard-headedness, and which was really only wooden-headedness, with intelligence, and also we are getting rid of mushy sentimentalism.
My Life and Work Henry Ford 1905
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