nitwitted


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nitwitted

(ˈnɪtˌwɪtɪd)
adj
relating to a person who lacks sense or judgment
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Adj.1.nitwitted - (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment
soft-witted, witless, senseless
stupid - lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity
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Next door in Highhills, a nitwitted king (Toby Jones) fixates on an unusually talented flea, allowing it to distract him from the task of finding his daughter a suitable husband.
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With a look of sublime, nitwitted happiness, at having gained what seems a captive audience, she discourses interminably on war, peace, art, love, philosophy, mysticism, solitude, friendship, and "how wonderful it would be to live in a world without borders." Well, there were no borders between the Bosnians and their neighbors in the old Yugoslavia, and look what happened.
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