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muddleheaded

American

[muhd-l-hed-id] / ˈmʌd lˌhɛd ɪd /

adjective

confused in one's thinking; blundering.

a muddleheaded assertion.

muddleheaded British

/ ˌmʌdəlˈhɛdɪd /

adjective

mentally confused or vague

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Other Word Forms

muddleheadedness noun

Etymology

Origin of muddleheaded

First recorded in 1750–60; muddle + headed

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

The trouble lay in the abrupt, muddleheaded way the cutback had been ordered �without due notice.

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

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

But he is not quite so muddleheaded as to profess to stop it because he is a Liberal, and a particular supporter of the party of liberty.

From The New Jerusalem by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

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