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
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
But he pauses in his chaffing to say, "After all, if we were in his shoes we should be equally fatheaded."
From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Wray, Fitzwater
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