hebetude

Example Sentences

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So full of hebetude is the film that baseball fans squirmed, bit thumbs, made unpleasant faces.

From Time Magazine Archive

He detested the mob for its human hebetude.

From Time Magazine Archive

We are on the eve of a Jubilee Year, when the halcyon shall plume his wing, and we shall hear much oratorical trash and hebetude about the peacefulness of this happy reign.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by O'Shea, John Augustus

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

In the doorway Stevie, calmed, seemed sunk in hebetude.

From The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Conrad, Joseph