NOUN
  1. a person of subnormal intelligence
  2. a stupid incompetent person
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How To Use half-wit In A Sentence

  • He was said to feel that it made him look frail, vulnerable and half-witted. Times, Sunday Times
  • He also came to know a half-witted spinster who, having stolen a yard or two of cloth from a weaver, was to be hanged for it.
  • The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you're someone. Archive 2008-04-01
  • What you did tonight was half-witted and temerarious.
  • Despite your pontificating and half-witted theory, you clearly know very little about modern history or economics.
  • The fateful game is accompanied by half-witted bickering about the teams' various merits, cultural joshing and casual misogyny. Times, Sunday Times
  • They were typical young recruits, too half-witted to know any better, but Ma was so fed up, he criticized them severely.
  • But it's a story about specific people, and only a half-wit ever reads a story and assumes any character is a typicality, unless it's a type of character they've never come across before.
  • Not when it comes from half-wit dirtbags like this character.
  • Is she saying that the words of half-wits and blowhards carry more weight in the world of the written word than the established journalists and writers themselves?
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