halfwit
noun
a feeble-minded person
halfwitted
-
a word derived from
halfwit.
Example Sentences
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It had cost her such an effort to try to make it plain without just coming out and saying he was halfwitted.
From The Homesteader A Novel by Oscar Micheaux
From the Dilbert character, the archetypal halfwitted middle-management type.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Guy L. Steele
It was even said that he prided himself on being halfwitted.
From West Wind Drift by George Barr McCutcheon
I saw him often after that night—a poor, halfwitted creature, who wandered from inn to inn there in the north country, trading music for hospitality.
From Eben Holden, a tale of the north country by Irving Bacheller
