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Definition of half-witted in English: half-wittedadjectiveˌhɑːfˈwɪtɪd informal Foolish or stupid. Example sentencesExamples - Already, in many manufacturing towns, it is difficult to get even a half-witted domestic servant.
- Unfortunately, half-witted decision-makers are all around us and it would be an insurmountable task to catalog them all.
- Caroline shouted at a half-witted model.
- They were typical young recruits, too half-witted to know any better, but Ma was so fed up, he criticized them severely.
- Stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking students are encouraged.
- This exercise is wayward enough without making up some half-witted fake deals.
- Smoking rates in Canada are continuing to drop, in spite of half-witted blunders by our government.
- Italian wakes are dramatic and overwrought enough without half-witted celebrities in attendance.
- Despite your pontificating and half-witted theory, you clearly know very little about modern history or economics.
- And another of them is to pay good money to see some half-witted actor being paid royally to mimic another, usually deceased.
- The woman looked at her and smiled, for there were no cows there and she thought the girl had become half-witted.
- His special cruelty is expended on Smike, a half-witted lad left on his hands and employed as a drudge.
- As any half-witted economist will tell you, reducing the supply always has the result of increasing prices.
- You may all see him for yourselves: an effeminate, half-witted creature, reeking of strong liquor from the early hours of the day.
- He arranged for his halfwitted brother-in-law to do the deed.
- The point is that we live right now in a dot.com economy where any half-witted sap can learn how to day trade.
- He also came to know a half-witted spinster who, having stolen a yard or two of cloth from a weaver, was to be hanged for it.
- The shock has made her half-witted, but I understand that she was never very bright.
- It was obvious what she had wanted, and he had blundered through it like a half-witted schoolboy.
- He uses Tingary, his half-witted sidekick, to assist him in his plots to bring down the jester.
Synonyms stupid, unintelligent, ignorant, dense, brainless, mindless, foolish, dull-witted, dull, slow-witted, witless, slow, dunce-like, simple-minded, empty-headed, vacuous, vapid, idiotic, moronic, imbecilic, imbecile, obtuse, doltish
Derivatives adverbˌhɑːfˈwɪtɪdli informal These things, in case you don't know, mince around half-wittedly shouting in horrible cutesy helium-blasted voices, presumably to provide a little comic relief for the more easy-to-please viewer. Example sentencesExamples - She plays into the media's hands half-wittedly, digging herself into a deeper and deeper hole of despair.
- Business, academic and government systems require more sophisticated versions of the same 5 items, plus two more to prevent users from half-wittedly compromising the system.
- Watching me struggle half-wittedly with the coveralls, Fouché began impatiently to help me into them.
- In my opinion, and I'm sure you both agree, the position of Councilor is far too important to do half-wittedly.
nounˌhɑːfˈwɪtɪdnəs informal They mistook his returning stare for admiration, perhaps, or maybe just for half-wittedness. Example sentencesExamples - As for their doing Aida - fair dinkum, they beat me - which lower depth of half-wittedness can they possibly touch?
- Miller persuades the viewer that young Richard's half-wittedness truly is ‘a gift from God.’
- Sure, adults can be dumb, but beyond a certain point, it's just too painful to watch so much half-wittedness unfold on screen.
- And, for the record; I just deleted nearly two paragraphs worth of ranting because your half-wittedness is not worth my time.
Rhymes nitwitted, quick-witted, uncommitted, unfitted |