How To Use Dim-witted In A Sentence

  • Politicians fret over the rising cost of pensions while careless juveniles, ignoring their own inevitable fate, act as though older people are somehow dim-witted.
  • Steeped in disappointment and heartbreaking stupidity, this new play is a dismayingly dim-witted musical. Times, Sunday Times
  • Dim-witted, dim-sighted, or maybe just very smart, she thought. For Love of Mother-Not
  • They deliver nonsensical presentations to self-important dim-witted businessmen to hilarious results.
  • The truth is that I have become lazy and dim-witted.
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  • Like a dim-witted teenager in a bad horror flick, this oblivious sea lion pup frolics in clear view of a hungry predator...
  • They were probably so dim-witted that they didn't understand what he had plastered to himself.
  • When the dim-witted GOP base hears the word "revolution", they think of the violent kind of revolution, not the procedural kind that (I hope) Sen. Alexander is talking about. GOP senator warns of 'minor revolution' over health care
  • Fleischer has some fun when his dim-witted soldier is suddenly imbued with knowledge and insight not a great thing, apparently after dying, getting some laughs out of his desire to imagine a friendship between himself and Tom on one hand and dashing off Arabic and philosophical nuggets on the other. Michael Giltz: Theater: Robin Williams, Yes; Bengal Tiger, No
  • The community is usually portrayed as naive, dim-witted and almost always forgetful.
  • The more you try to dig out of the very deep hole you dug for yourself, the more childish, mendacious, and dim-witted you sound. Relatively new to fly fishing
  • To her, I'm an easy-going, dim-witted foreigner.
  • Isn't it nice how, with unemployment as high as it is, there are people on both sides that don't need to work and, therefore, can spend weeks on end brainwashing the dim-witted at town hall meetings? Dueling bus tours in health care debate
  • In order to make money, I acted dim-witted.
  • Sanchez assumed that Stewart and Colbert were both anti-Hispanic bigots because they were constantly lampooning him as an anti-intellectual, dim-witted buffoon. Dan Sweeney: It's the Stupid, Stupid: Rick Sanchez Fired for the Wrong Reasons
  • One is a charmlessly aggressive factory worker, the second is bent on social advancement by way of a steady job in insurance, the third is a dim-witted, maladroit railway porter. Cemetery Junction
  • It's been around since long before Basil Fawlty was reduced to fits of apoplectic rage by the uncomprehending antics of his dim-witted Spanish waiter Manuel in Fawlty Towers.
  • Dim-witted because education held no escape, unstylish because poverty stalks the abused, these people are the spat out remains of a horrid meal.
  • The fact that the dim-witted and near-sighted MPAA has slapped an NC-17 rating on Steve McQueen's Shame implies that there is something prurient about this film, whose central figure is a sex addict, struggling with his demons. Marshall Fine: Movie review: Shame
  • Is he so dim-witted that he can't see the possibilities?
  • Unfortunately, the advertiser didn't count on dim-witted viewers.
  • When I heard him speak to a truck driver he spoke in a dim-witted sort of way.
  • Certainly, he could have applied his charms to some rich widow or dim-witted heiress long ago.
  • Kwanten has a face that is like a cartoon version of dim-witted handsomeness, which is what makes him so perfect on "True Blood. Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Griff the Invisible
  • Mira Sorvino stars in this dim-witted, dimly lit monster flick about gigantic cockroaches living in the New York subway system.
  • George is small and quick; Lennie is huge with superhuman strength but with the brains of a dim-witted child.
  • Do you think we will be awed by the number of nubile, dim-witted, improbably large-breasted young ladies your middle-aged "narrator" sleeps with in the throes of his midlife crisis, after leaving his wrinkled shrew of a wife? Archive 2009-09-01
  • The twin deficits will continue to baffle commentators who are too dim-witted to understand that they have fallen victim to clever prestidigitation.
  • People shriek about the portrayal of Teabaggers in Captain America, but have no problem with the dim-witted idea of 100,000 Kryptonians immigrating to Earth or the Green Goblin being put in charge of National Security. What Price Super-Heroics?
  • My aunt bought me a book called Cartoon Animation by Preston Blair during grade school, which I used to develop a few original characters that I still remember how to draw to this day, such as a dim-witted cow with buckteeth. Art School, I'm confident I can get there, Part 3
  • The dim-witted zealots in his cabinet are even more preposterous than he is.
  • All of the villagers are chronically dim-witted, including the girl he falls in love with.
  • On the face of it, his new role does not sound like the sort of thing that one might imagine LeBlanc - who played the dim-witted Joey Tribbiani in Friends - would instantly have been attracted to.
  • In this Pythonesque vision, Lady Macbeth is a vampish sexpot, while her husband is a dim-witted cuckold, less blighted by fatal flaws than fatal dorkiness.

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