soft-headed

Related to soft-headed: witless, gormlessness

soft-headed

adj
informal feeble-minded; stupid; simple
ˌsoft-ˈheadedness n
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soft′-head′ed



adj.
simple-minded.
soft′-head′ed•ness, n.
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Translations

soft-headed

[ˈsɒftˈhedɪd] ADJbobo, tonto
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References in classic literature ?
"How my fool of a soft-headed soft-hearted brother would rage if he knew how cunningly I have saved his pocket.
In the time of Baron Stott-Wartenheim we had a lot of soft-headed people running this Embassy.
Lord Triton is precisely the man: full of plans for making the people happy in a soft-headed sort of way.
"Ideally, you should use a soft-headed toothbrush, or an American Dental Association (ADA)-approved electric brush, which comes standard with soft heads." Signs that you're scrubbing too hard include a frazzled brush head in as little as one to two months, increased sensitivity, and a receding gum line.
class="MsoNormalForget about the impact this would have on our soft-hearted, soft-headed notions of romantic and filial love.
So the Conscious Accelerator aims to "do good well," Bo has written, but without being soft-headed: "We hope to help entrepreneurs build self-sustaining and scalable companies with the same operational rigor and discipline as we have done in our venture capital career."
Sometimes it is not clear who McCabe's dialogue partners/targets are supposed to be, though in view of the number of backhanded comments he permits himself from time to time they might be supposed to be primarily soft-headed Christians.
Americans, especially conservatives, love to mock their northern neighbour: For its accent, its apologetic manners, its food (oh, poutine) - and above all, for its supposedly soft-headed, pinko style of government.
This will require a total reversal of 'soft-headed' policies.
It demands calculated neglect of various concerns that are seen as "soft-headed".
Here is the passage that possibly led O'Shea to this judgment: 'By a little scheming the soft-hearted, soft-headed captain was got to pay special attention to one of the younger nuns.