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
Yet fatheaded Hardy and wooden-faced Laurel can always make audiences laugh.
From Time Magazine Archive
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At the book's end, Twining returns, reduces the fatheaded opposition to its proper pinheaded proportions, and weary of it all, retires in favor of Wren.
From Time Magazine Archive
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James might be wrongheaded; but George was fatheaded.
From Poor Relations by MacKenzie, Compton
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