obtuseness

Example Sentences

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He plays the victim vividly and is quite adept at showing the obtuseness of a know-it-all.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2024

One of the great Twitter accounts documenting this is called VCs Congratulating Themselves—a collection of venture capitalists posting with mind-blowing obtuseness.

From Slate • Nov. 10, 2023

Anxiety and depression are endemic, psychologists tell us, and why wouldn’t they be, when optimism and cheerfulness are taken as signs of obtuseness?

From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2023

The obtuseness of privilege — and the mania that aims to preserve it with absurd rituals and at unimaginable emotional cost — get a thorough workout, even in such a short play.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2021

I had never encountered such obtuseness in a first-class hotel, and I told them so, but this only increased their inhospitality.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin