hebetude
Example Sentences
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He detested the mob for its human hebetude.
From Time Magazine Archive
So full of hebetude is the film that baseball fans squirmed, bit thumbs, made unpleasant faces.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is frequently less mental hebetude or dulness than in ordinary typhoid fever.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Summer alone could bring them together again—the one from the dry gloom of the barn, the other from the cold seclusion of its wintry hebetude.
From Alec Forbes of Howglen by George MacDonald
"A debauched old fellow," says Friedrich; "gone all to hebetude by his labors in that line; agrees always with the last speaker."
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Thomas Carlyle
