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
Howard longs to be close to Momo, and, in his emotional obtuseness, can’t grasp what the impediment is.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
During his year “in-country,” he witnessed truly surreal incompetence, obtuseness, irrationality, waste and lethal vainglory.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2021
Rebuffed, unhappy at the obtuseness of the very flat, the apple bumps the square and sends him aloft, fluttering and spinning into that mysterious third dimension.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
