muddleheaded
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- muddleheadedness noun
Etymology
Origin of muddleheaded
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Historians have tended to consider Populism muddleheaded: America looked forward, Populists looked backward.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016
Almost every day of his hunted existence was a new complex of calculations and risks; a single muddleheaded moment might have ruined him.
From Time Magazine Archive
To a muddleheaded Government clerk who telephoned him to ask what should be done with a carload of shingles, he replied: "Print the Lord's Prayer on every one of them."
From Time Magazine Archive
Victim finally chosen is a languid, muddleheaded aristocrat whom Correspondent Thomas insists is "the last of the Romanovs."
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
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
