Meaning of dunderheaded | Babel Free

Definitions

Stupid, foolish.

Examples

“Much nearer sixty years of age than fifty, with a flowing outline of stomach, and horizontal creases in his waistcoat; reputed to be rich; voting at elections in the strictly respectable interest⟳; morally satisfied that nothing but he himself has grown since he was a baby; how can dunder-headed Mr. Sapsea be otherwise than a credit to Cloisterham, and society?”

“He knew all about it, dammit! It was no pleasure for him to have⟳ the thing shoved down his neck by every dunderheaded pumpkin-faced noodle in the universe!”

“He went doggedly across the fields with his terrier, and looked at everything with a jaundiced eye. . . . [W]as he a dunderheaded baby, not man enough to be like⟳ the other young fellows who drank a good deal⟳ and wenched a little without any question⟳, and were satisfied?”

“The best way to see⟳ Hell's Highway, which opens today in Manhattan, might be on a double⟳ bill with 2 Fast 2 Furious. Yes, one is a scholarly documentary and the other a dunderheaded action picture, but both, in their different ways, offer⟳ testimony to the love⟳ affair between the movie camera and the automobile”

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