wooden-headed
Americanadjective
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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
“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
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
There is enough and to spare of blame ready in any balanced mind for either of these great writers, but they can do without the admiration of wooden-headed prigs, however able.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
"I don't know that I could pilot——" "You wooden-headed idiot, do you suppose I want you to pilot it?" he roared, with a shout of laughter.
From The Man Without a Memory by Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams)
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