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Definition of woolly-minded in English: woolly-mindedadjective informal Vague or confused in character or expression. Mawdsley had no time for woolly-minded socialists Example sentencesExamples - I think the Bishop is a wooly minded and misguided liberal.
- I've been asked my opinion, then called a woolly-minded idealist, an economic ingenue.
- Equally skilful is the progress of Waverley from his woolly-minded ignorance at the opening to the knowledge of the world he acquires from experience.
- We liberals can find the time during our busy, limp-wristed, tree-hugging, woolly-minded, bleeding-heart schedules to put in an honest day's work.
- He was just one of those good-hearted, woolly-minded men who were guided by emotions on everything.
- The skeptic became a woolly-minded idealist!
- He was drunk on ideas, a deadly tipple for woolly-minded pseudo-intellectuals.
- John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father.
- There's a lot of woolly-minded wishful thinking in his essay.
- I think he's woolly-minded.
- One doesn't have to be a woolly-minded techno-utopian to criticize this as pandering to reactionary fogeys.
- Don't be woolly minded by sticking with the bog-standard bank account you've had since you started work or college.
- The Home Secretary is a ferocious critic of "woolly-minded" liberals.
- There remains, unfortunately - and, perhaps, inevitably - a surfeit of woolly-minded writing and talk about emotions and their expression.
- The worldly, tough-minded economist has joined the other-worldly, woolly minded theologian or classicist in the literary repertoire.
- I've heard someone furiously dismiss all animal charities as supported by woolly minded morons because humans have enough problems without worrying about herons.
Synonyms stupefied, addled, befuddled, confused, muddled, bewildered, dumbfounded, dazed, stunned, dizzy, muzzy, groggy, foggy, fuzzy, vague, disorientated, disoriented, all at sea, mixed up, at a loss, at sixes and sevens |