How To Use Half-wit In A Sentence
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He was said to feel that it made him look frail, vulnerable and half-witted.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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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
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What you did tonight was half-witted and temerarious.
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Despite your pontificating and half-witted theory, you clearly know very little about modern history or economics.
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The fateful game is accompanied by half-witted bickering about the teams' various merits, cultural joshing and casual misogyny.
Times, Sunday Times
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They were typical young recruits, too half-witted to know any better, but Ma was so fed up, he criticized them severely.
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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.
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Not when it comes from half-wit dirtbags like this character.
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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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He knew the bellman was a poor half-witted fellow, who would not be sensible of his absence; and then he turned to have another shot at the wolves.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 421 Volume 17, New Series, January 24, 1852
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It was obvious what she had wanted, and he had blundered through it like a half-witted schoolboy.
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The latest had fled in tears this morning when Adrina accused her of being a fumble-fingered half-wit.
HARSHINI
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He might even appear before some half-wit magistrate in Cumbria or Poole or somewhere and get let out on bail -- same result.
THE SCAR
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Or, alternatively, f*ckwitted z list no-mark bigs it up in tat magazine aimed at illiterate half-wits.
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The dog is routinely released and seems more than happy to return. He is obviously a half-wit.
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Some Szech'wan coolies and myself had rice together on a low form away from the smoke, and the while listened to some tales of old, told by some half-witted, goitrous monster who seemed sadly out at elbow.
Across China on Foot
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Brogan cursed beneath her breath, like she thought she was dealing with a half-wit.
The Priest
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The poor man sounded half-witted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking students are encouraged.
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Unfortunately, half-witted decision-makers are all around us and it would be an insurmountable task to catalog them all.
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Already, in many manufacturing towns, it is difficult to get even a half-witted domestic servant.
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As any half-witted economist will tell you, reducing the supply always has the result of increasing prices.
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As long as Russia was ruled by Paul I, the half-witted son of Catherine the Great, Napoleon had known how to deal with the situation.
The Story of Mankind
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Gary and Ray were even taller than the half-witted giant, Seth.
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Surely the finger should be pointed squarely at the half-wit that deceided to let him out in the first place!
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If space permitted here, I could fill several pages with tales of half-finished jobs, unsafe wiring, leaking plumbing and other jobs bodged by idle half-wits who don't give a damn about quality, or even safety, as long as they get paid.
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Life under any conditions is filled with idiotic excursions, false goals, prodigal waste, disappointed loves, galling personal insufficiencies, half-witted associations.
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You truly are a pig-ignorant, foul-mouthed, drivelling half-wit.
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I hope the voters of Blackburn have as low opinion of this toerag as the rest of the country, but sadly I expect the half-wits will return him to the trough next year.
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He was a shyster lawyer, and had a wife and thirteen half-witted children.
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In the not-too-distant future he sees a Republican half-wit winning the presidency and dragging America back to the Stone Age.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Does Questioning Evolution Make You Anti-Science?
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Then there was poor Jacob Dodson, the half-witted boy, who ambled about cheerfully, undertaking messages and little helpful odds and ends for every one, which, however, poor Jacob managed always hopelessly to imbrangle.
Tom Brown's Schooldays
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The shock has made her half-witted, but I understand that she was never very bright.
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Whereas aconceptual model imagining them as each only half-witted and needing the other 'half' to compose a whole thought, 'misunderestimates' the integrity of each.
What Do Liberals Believe?
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As written, and as played by Shaw -- who shows, in comparison to his crisp Soviet assassin who is nearly a match for Sean Connery's Bond in From Russia With Love, that 12 years is ample time to go to seed -- Quint is far too prone to "colorful" sea chanties and eccentric half-witticisms.
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By AW, January 4, 2010 @ 8: 20 am lame brain misguided misfit narcissistic half-wit
Cheeseburger Gothic » Snip snip.
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And another of them is to pay good money to see some half-witted actor being paid royally to mimic another, usually deceased.
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He uses Tingary, his half-witted sidekick, to assist him in his plots to bring down the jester.
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He is a great talker and very clever, for in his half-wits is more cunning than in the brains of most; and he shall so bepraise Gudruda's beauty that
Eric Brighteyes
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He was what people back then called a half-wit, of course.
Zombies vs. Unicorns
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Thessalus asked Pixodarus why he would want a half-wit for a son-in-law when he could instead have Alexander?
Alexander the Great
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Felix Farmer has established himself as Hollywood's golden boy - a producer who can turn any half-wit project or two-bit script into box office boffo.
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His special cruelty is expended on Smike, a half-witted lad left on his hands and employed as a drudge.
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Italian wakes are dramatic and overwrought enough without half-witted celebrities in attendance.
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Anyway, the sentence was duly suspended by some half-witted magistrate, just as you would imagine.
The Sun
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-- Well, he hires a young half-witted hawbuck for a servant, who didn't clean his boots to his liking, so he began reading the Riot Act one day, and concluded by saying, 'I'm blowed if I couldn't clean them better myself with a little pump-water.'
Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities
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Any half-wit, by the simple device of ascribing his delusions to revelation, takes on an authority that is denied to all the rest of us.
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The woman looked at her and smiled, for there were no cows there and she thought the girl had become half-witted.
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This exercise is wayward enough without making up some half-witted fake deals.
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As it turns out judd, you half-wit, lying about sex with a subordinate may well not be relevant in a sexual harassment case.
Matthew Yglesias » Breitbart on Podesta
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Left alone, she is exposed to assorted rather too colorful locals: hulks and half-wits, telephone romancers and spurious cops, none of them couth.
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You may all see him for yourselves: an effeminate, half-witted creature, reeking of strong liquor from the early hours of the day.
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They were typical young recruits, too half-witted to know any better, but Ma was so fed up, he criticized them severely.
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The dog is routinely released and seems more than happy to return. He is obviously a 19) half-wit .
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One last thing, there has been alot of glee in bashing this quiz from some of the bloggers, with people saying Wallace was “brutally ignorant”, or an “idiot”, or a “half-wit”.
Led astray by the no-split-infinitives fetish « Motivated Grammar
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He uses Tingary, his half-witted sidekick, to assist him in his plots to bring down the jester.
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As long as Russia was ruled by Paul I, the half-witted son of Catherine the Great, Napoleon had known how to deal with the situation.
The Story of Mankind
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American motion pictures are written by the half-educated for the half-witted.
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The point is that we live right now in a dot.com economy where any half-witted sap can learn how to day trade.
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He didn't need dweomer to hear them thinking `half-witted dolt " and `madman".
A TIME OF WAR
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Unlike beer, which some wine aficionados describe as ‘the inebriant of the lout and half-wit’, wine requires drinkers to develop a complex sense of taste.
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If the plot of his novel is half-witted, the plot of the movie is lamebrained.
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Smoking rates in Canada are continuing to drop, in spite of half-witted blunders by our government.
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His special cruelty is expended on Smike, a half-witted lad left on his hands and employed as a drudge.
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Caroline shouted at a half-witted model.
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Of course cops get it wrong from time to time, as does the half-wit serving me in WH Smiths, the amusingly termed customer service centre at Eon or the staff at my local train station.
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He didn't need dweomer to hear them thinking `half-witted dolt " and `madman".
A TIME OF WAR
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This prompted me to hunt out an article whose most memorable one-liner is “In order to be a wit in a foreign language you have to go through the stage of being a half-wit – there is no other way”.
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