hebetudinous

Ah, for the days when “9 Chickweed Lane” had my grandkids going to the dictionary to look up words like “bricolage” and “hebetudinous.”

For she notes many things in nature, as well as in the national life and popular customs of the countries which she traverses, which escape the more hebetudinous perceptions of men, and thus a vast field, that would otherwise remain unknown, is opened to observation and critical study.

Strange to say, also, for one of that lithe race, his person was heavy and hebetudinous; the consequence, no doubt, of habitual intemperance.

And I began: "Well, after referring to the word 'idiot' in the index, just to get a lead," I said, "I shall begin by saying that you are evidently a hebetudinous imbecile, an indiscriminate stult—" "Hold on!" he cried.

By some magic of duty, he had contrived to give his usually hebetudinous features an expression of enthusiasm.