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单词 half-wit
释义
half-wit
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n

WORD FAMILY
half-wit: half-wits
USAGE EXAMPLES
“Who’s the half-wit now? I meant the Mujahideen, Laila. Their coming to Kabul.”
Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns(2007)
At length a bumbling hairy half-wit was brought in for questioning.
John Steinbeck, East of Eden(1952)
Better his precious baby Cora grow up with new parents who could give her everything she wanted than with a half-wit like him.
Lisa Graff, A Tangle of Knots(2013)
1n a person of subnormal intelligence
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
changeling, cretin, idiot, imbecile, moron, retard
mongoloid
a person suffering from Down syndrome (no longer used technically in this sense)
simple, simpleton
a person lacking intelligence or common sense
2n a stupid incompetent person
Syn|Hyper
dimwit, doofus, nitwit
simple, simpleton
a person lacking intelligence or common sense
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