dunderhead
noun
a dunce; blockhead; numbskull.
dunderheadedness
-
a word derived from
dunderhead.
Example Sentences
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If this fate were peculiar to me, it could be accounted for quite handily upon grounds of dunderheadedness and dissipated I.Q.
From Time Magazine Archive
In his dunderheadedness he can't see that he has fenced out enterprise, and is fast legislating himself out of the country.
From The Awful Australian by Valerie Desmond
First time was when Ma said she'd marry me, and I got my betrothal kiss; second, was the day she said she'd forgive my years of selfish dunderheadedness, and start over.
From Michael O'Halloran by Gene Stratton-Porter
An' if it hadn't 'a' ben for your dunderheadedness, givin' up the checks an' never stoppin' to see what was comin' of 'em, trunks or hencoops, we might.
From A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
