wooden-headed
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of wooden-headed
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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In The Vertical Smile he mocks a handsome and vacuous presidential hopeful, Duncan Mulligan, who must be the crookedest, most wooden-headed and hypocritical Wall Street lawyer not actually in jail.
From Time Magazine Archive
There’s an antique child’s rocking horse in the window, a threadbare quilt, a wooden-headed doll with a battered face.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
“Other than the fact that they’re not wooden-headed ninnies who can only open their mouths to give orders and gossip?”
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
You have the makings of a good sailorman in you, but you're too quick and excitable, and want an old wooden-headed, stolid buffer like me to steady you.
From Yorke The Adventurer by Becke, Louis
He is but a six-inch puppet, a thing of shreds and patches, a wooden-headed doll, vitalized for a moment only by the hand concealed inside his flimsy body with its flaunting colors.
From A Book About the Theater by Matthews, Brander
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