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How to use half-witted in a sentence

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It was obvious what she had wanted, and he had blundered through it like a half-witted schoolboy.
Already, in many manufacturing towns, it is difficult to get even a half-witted domestic servant.
Unfortunately, half-witted decision-makers are all around us and it would be an insurmountable task to catalog them all.
This exercise is wayward enough without making up some half-witted fake deals.
Smoking rates in Canada are continuing to drop, in spite of half-witted blunders by our government.
Italian wakes are dramatic and overwrought enough without half-witted celebrities in attendance.
Despite your pontificating and half-witted theory, you clearly know very little about modern history or economics.
And another of them is to pay good money to see some half-witted actor being paid royally to mimic another, usually deceased.
The woman looked at her and smiled, for there were no cows there and she thought the girl had become half-witted.
His special cruelty is expended on Smike, a half-witted lad left on his hands and employed as a drudge.
As any half-witted economist will tell you, reducing the supply always has the result of increasing prices.
The point is that we live right now in a dot.com economy where any half-witted sap can learn how to day trade.
He also came to know a half-witted spinster who, having stolen a yard or two of cloth from a weaver, was to be hanged for it.
The shock has made her half-witted, but I understand that she was never very bright.
Stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking students are encouraged.
Without this precaution there is a good chance that it will grow up half-witted.
They were typical young recruits, too half-witted to know any better, but Ma was so fed up, he criticized them severely.
Tells about another woman and her half-witted charge she encounters at the station.
One famous Spitting Image sketch showed Thatcher settling down to dinner with a collection of half-witted Cabinet ministers.
She would have been amazed at me writing this book because she thought I was completely half-witted.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Only then did it strike Phil Ralston that the lad was dumb, as well as half-witted.
It is a half-witted creature, who serves me when I would attract the people.
An alehouse-keeper in the neighbourhood of Elstow had a son who was half-witted.
Now, it is entirely weak and half-witted to appeal to the future.
Methinks, a Smithfield Match is so very ridiculous, that it might nauseate a half-witted Courtier.
You be only half-witted, anyway, and I sha'n't be too hard on you.
It was that half-witted lad then who had perished in the park.
They are perhaps passable portraits of the languid, half-witted, hydrocephalic creatures who made them.
She is only half-witted, you know, and didn't do her teachers much credit.
And Mart was always enraged at the sight of his half-witted son.
So unresponsive and dumb was he that they called him half-witted.
In the heavy shadows of a big tree before Doctor Welling's house, he stopped and stood watching half-witted Turk Smollet, who was pushing a wheelbarrow in the road.
A half-witted boy of the school became enamored of the young master.
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