wooden-headedness
- 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
I detest that wooden-headedness which no amount of moving about the world will ever teach to think.
From The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan by Mitford, Bertram
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 Mundy, Talbot
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 Ford, Henry
