muddleheaded
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- muddleheadedness noun
Etymology
Origin of muddleheaded
Example Sentences
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Historians have tended to consider Populism muddleheaded: America looked forward, Populists looked backward.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016
Basically, the rebellion failed because Sukarno, however exasperating and muddleheaded, is neither vicious nor ruthless, and does not rouse the passionate indignation needed to fuel a popular uprising.
From Time Magazine Archive
She delivers her points with a kind of muddleheaded nonchalance that invites others to feel that if she can do it, anybody can.
From Time Magazine Archive
To many leaders in the church hierarchy, the sisters' activity is misguided and muddleheaded.
From Time Magazine Archive
In that case, what, in the name of all that is muddleheaded, becomes of the "unchanging tendency towards warfare"?
From The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Angell, Norman
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