fatheaded
Americanadjective
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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
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It would be wonderful, said Hecht, if Charlie's attitude "was the attitude of the young world toward its fatheaded, sham-filled adults."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Oh, I know some of those fatheaded Brotherhood economists call our system economic slavery—and I'll admit that it's pretty hard to crack out of a spherical trust.
From The Lani People by Bone, Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin)
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