wooden-headed
adjective
thick-headed, dull; stupid.
wooden-headedness
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a word derived from
wooden-headed.
Example Sentences
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It’s not easy, but we have nothing to lose but a lot of wooden-headedness and the next catastrophic failure.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021
As Tuchman wrote, wooden-headedness was best captured in a remark about Philip II of Spain: “No experience of the failure of his policy could shake his belief in its essential excellence.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2018
A hundred yards ahead of us Maga was talking and gesticulating furiously, evidently railing at Kagig's wooden-headedness or unbelief.
From The Eye of Zeitoon by Talbot Mundy
Dr. Samuel Johnson’s were not common ears, but even he comments on these beautiful words with a wooden-headedness almost past belief.
From Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation by Alexander Whyte
We are displacing that peculiar virtue which used to be admired as hard-headedness, and which was really only wooden-headedness, with intelligence, and also we are getting rid of mushy sentimentalism.
From My Life and Work by Henry Ford
