obtuse

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With diminishing power, with diminishing vitality, with a dimmer eye, with an obtuser ear, with a slower-beating heart, with a feebler frame, we march on and on to our grave.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Maclaren, Alexander

After his recovery his small and slender frame assumed an obtuser garniture of flesh than it had ever before worn.

From Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

We hope he will, at least, never mount Pega'sus, or water him in Heli'con, and that he will leave Mu'seum to the more vulgar sphere and obtuser sensibilities of Barnum.

From The Function of the Poet and Other Essays by Lowell, James Russell

After halting an hour we rode up a slope whose obtuser talus showed that we were reaching the far-famed platform, called Las Cañádas del Pico.

From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

"Who is that?" said Ralph, his obtuser faculties perceiving the man for the first time.

From The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers by Cholmondeley, Mary