obtuse

From “Civil War” to “Game Night,” Plemons has a knack for playing characters who are doggedly, dangerously obtuse, a key he’s still working in here.

As a metaphor for obtuse white supremacy, still active today, that terror figure is hard to beat.

I realize that my humor on “Red Eye” was deliberately obtuse in some ways, and not really deliberately.

"I think it would be a bit obtuse of me to speak about signings when clearly we have to improve and do better with what we have," he admitted.

But Schaffer’s film has the uniquely difficult task of making Frank look like an idiot without making the police as a whole seem lovably obtuse.