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half-witted

ADJECTIVE
  1. retarded in intellectual development

How To Use half-witted In A Sentence

  • This exercise is wayward enough without making up some half-witted fake deals.
  • The woman looked at her and smiled, for there were no cows there and she thought the girl had become half-witted.
  • -- Well, he hires a young half-witted hawbuck for a servant, who didn't clean his boots to his liking, so he began reading the Riot Act one day, and concluded by saying, 'I'm blowed if I couldn't clean them better myself with a little pump-water.' Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities
  • Anyway, the sentence was duly suspended by some half-witted magistrate, just as you would imagine. The Sun
  • His special cruelty is expended on Smike, a half-witted lad left on his hands and employed as a drudge.
  • He uses Tingary, his half-witted sidekick, to assist him in his plots to bring down the jester.
  • And another of them is to pay good money to see some half-witted actor being paid royally to mimic another, usually deceased.
  • Italian wakes are dramatic and overwrought enough without half-witted celebrities in attendance.
  • He didn't need dweomer to hear them thinking `half-witted dolt " and `madman". A TIME OF WAR
  • Caroline shouted at a half-witted model.
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