thick-headedness
Example Sentences
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I don’t think it’s merely boredom and thick-headedness that leads her to text you.
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2020
Despite all his denial and even my own thick-headedness while writing the book, his voice always seemed to me to be motivated by love.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2015
On my oral examination for the doctorate he tried thus to prevent my thick-headedness from becoming too evident by dropping several hints as to what the proper answer was to some question about Germanic umlaut.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The experience of a few days ago might have taught me that, one would think, but I was dull to thick-headedness.
From Nancy by Broughton, Rhoda
"You don't understand," groaned Pixley, with an inclination to weep over the foreigner's thick-headedness.
From In the Arena Stories of Political Life by Tarkington, Booth