obtuseness

[ UK /ɒbtjˈuːsnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the quality of lacking a sharp edge or point
  2. the quality of being slow to understand
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How To Use obtuseness In A Sentence

  • What you feel when faced with their obtuseness is what they feel when faced with challenging information. Think Progress » Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist
  • At the time I couldn't believe the obtuseness of the student.
  • But in writing and painting them're maximumly internal; the obstacle is your own obtuseness .
  • Holmes is entertaining (although his obtuseness is a bit overdone, I'll admit), Dr Watson is very likable and the supporting cast worked well. MetaFilter
  • The very oversight perceptible to any eye and painful to any ear not sealed up by stepdame nature from all perception of pleasure or of pain derivable from good verse or bad -- the reckless reiteration of the same rhyme with but one poor couplet intervening -- suggests rather the oversight of an unfledged poet than the obtuseness of a full-grown poeticule or poetaster. A Study of Shakespeare
  • Compounding my obtuseness is my pigheadedness (that's another guy thing, right?) -- I can't seem to shake this idea that the race is about gender and race because ...... everybody is TELLING me it's about gender and race! Marc Kusnetz: Ephronology
  • How far back should I go to illustrate your two year exercise in obtuseness demanding ‘proofs’ and replies to your straw man arguments re: 9/11 on the Xymphora website? Damn you, red baron
  • Ball laments this continued obtuseness in defining how old is old, exactly, when it comes to certifiable gerontophilia. Slate Magazine
  • Oversensitivity and deliberate obtuseness is a terrible combination, Seixon … you might consider trying to address at least one of those character flaws. Think Progress » Putin Jabs Bush: ‘We Certainly Would Not Want…The Same Kind of Democracy As They Have in Iraq’
  • So now it becomes apparent that in addition to being a gutless liar, you are also a clueless mass of obtuseness.
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