How To Use Half-witted In A Sentence
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The shock has made her half-witted, but I understand that she was never very bright.
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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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It was obvious what she had wanted, and he had blundered through it like a half-witted schoolboy.
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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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He was said to feel that it made him look frail, vulnerable and half-witted.
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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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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Despite your pontificating and half-witted theory, you clearly know very little about modern history or economics.
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What you did tonight was half-witted and temerarious.
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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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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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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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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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He was a shyster lawyer, and had a wife and thirteen half-witted children.
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The poor man sounded half-witted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gary and Ray were even taller than the half-witted giant, Seth.
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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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As any half-witted economist will tell you, reducing the supply always has the result of increasing prices.
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Already, in many manufacturing towns, it is difficult to get even a half-witted domestic servant.
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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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Stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking students are encouraged.
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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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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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-- 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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Anyway, the sentence was duly suspended by some half-witted magistrate, just as you would imagine.
The Sun
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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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He uses Tingary, his half-witted sidekick, to assist him in his plots to bring down the jester.
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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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Italian wakes are dramatic and overwrought enough without half-witted celebrities in attendance.
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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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Caroline shouted at a half-witted model.
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This exercise is wayward enough without making up some half-witted fake deals.
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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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If the plot of his novel is half-witted, the plot of the movie is lamebrained.
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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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He didn't need dweomer to hear them thinking `half-witted dolt " and `madman".
A TIME OF WAR
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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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American motion pictures are written by the half-educated for the half-witted.
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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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He uses Tingary, his half-witted sidekick, to assist him in his plots to bring down the jester.
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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.
