fatheaded
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- fatheadedly adverb
- fatheadedness noun
Etymology
Origin of fatheaded
Example Sentences
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This will sound fatheaded, but I wish Joe Biden would read my 2016 novel “The Mandibles,” and I hope I’d say that even if it had been written by someone else.
From New York Times • May 27, 2021
Big Bertha was the nickname for a World War I German howitzer but also a fatheaded golf club.
From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 29, 2016
That parable is properly applicable to the sin of business covetousness and that kind of fatheaded satisfaction with things as they are.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet fatheaded Hardy and wooden-faced Laurel can always make audiences laugh.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tuppy's fatheaded words were still rankling in my bosom as I went up to my room.
From Right Ho, Jeeves by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
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