thick-headedness
Example Sentences
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I don’t think it’s merely boredom and thick-headedness that leads her to text you.
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2020
Despite all his denial and even my own thick-headedness while writing the book, his voice always seemed to me to be motivated by love.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2015
On my oral examination for the doctorate he tried thus to prevent my thick-headedness from becoming too evident by dropping several hints as to what the proper answer was to some question about Germanic umlaut.
From Time Magazine Archive
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His thick-headedness had, indeed, a touch of the heroic.
From New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
The lady was very scornful of my thick-headedness, and was at no pains to conceal her scorn, for all that I had written her so honorable a copy of verses.
From The God of Love by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)