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half-witted
[ haf-wit-id, hahf- ]
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Other Words From
- half-witted·ly adverb
- half-witted·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of half-witted1
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Example Sentences
Or, what more likely than that these ignorant and half-witted people should seek to manage an afflicted kinswoman by violence?
He told one of the prisoners, a half-witted lad, that he should be free if he would only do exactly as he was bidden.
I involuntarily exclaimed, when I had finished reading it, 'What a contrast between this poor half-witted man and myself!
At last her desire is realized: a son is born to her; but the child, conceived in madness, is born half-witted.
It irritated her to be teased about Pink as much as it used to annoy her to be teased about the half-witted Peter Finn.
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