Example Sentences

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Old Ehrenthal looked at the suitor with a glance in which something of his old cunning shone through his half-wittedness.

From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Freytag, Gustav

Rows of red brick villas in the suburbs of a town in the Midlands are, one would suppose, as hideous as human half-wittedness could invent or endure.

From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie

It is a popular error in America to regard Louis Napoleon as a singular combination of knavery and half-wittedness.

From My Unknown Chum by Fairbanks, Charles Bullard