Looking for sentences and phrases with the word thick-witted? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
Untangling the story will lead us through a mess of lapdogs, watchdogs, thick-witted cabinet ministers and terror in the Prime Minister's Office.
He was like a thick-witted detective at a crime scene, unable to make sense of clues right before his eyes.
In a long and distinguished career of insults towards foreigners and poor people, Prince Philip's latest thick-witted opinion is hardly a star candidate.
Examples from Classical Literature
It was possible, just possible, that they might escape the notice of these thick-witted men about him.
The gentleness of the Manager had deceived the thick-witted Slav and he grew bold.
Short-sighted as well as thick-witted, Kowalski had apparently never caught on to Callista's crime of moving the cot.
But Durbin was a rather slow, thick-witted rascal, while Bunol was quick, pantherish and full of crooked schemes.
His third visit left him clogged and thick-witted, as though he had been breathing stale air.
It is hard sometimes to see whether men are thick-witted, or hypocrites so perfect that they seem to be so.
She walked down the corridor, showed a thick-witted guard my own executive pass, and got away.
