half-wit

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In his withering 1950 essay “The Simple Art of Murder,” Raymond Chandler wrote that the solution to Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express” was so far-fetched that “only a half-wit could guess it.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2017

Back to playing a man-child very much in the mold of his “Hangover” character, which is to say someone who is a quarter of the way to being a half-wit.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2016

Richard Armstrong conducted with incisive intelligence, the orchestra was phenomenal and the lineup of creepy, half-wit suitors, led by Andrew Shore, Christopher Turner and Ryland Davies, completed a mesmerising night.

From The Guardian • Sep. 25, 2010

Adventures of a half-wit youth and his dog in the pixillated Irish countryside; in the same vein but not the same class as James Stephens' Crock of GoId.

From Time Magazine Archive

“They think you’re a half-wit like Trashman,” said the Blue Monkey.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer