Mentally slow

Usage examples of obtuse.

At this moment, when the possession of a new violin absorbed all his thoughts, his mind was particularly obtuse on the subject of sentimental grievances, and the almost voluptuous delight which filled his eyes when William entered his chamber, entirely prevented him from seeing the heavy shadow which overhung the brows of the latter.

The ghastly tale which they told could not have been utterly unread even by the obtuse and opinionated mind of the vain mother.

I see that the Southerners are as disappointingly obtuse as their Northern counterparts when it comes to such rules.

This statement seemed rather obtuse, even for her, and Muzeni - who did not know her conversational foibles as well as Terrel or Elam - sought to challenge her.

The Tarantula provides for every contingency: the underground passage, in fact, begins by being vertical, but, at four or five inches from the surface, it bends at an obtuse angle, forms a horizontal turning and then becomes perpendicular once more.

Epeirae does not extend beyond the wrapper, which is an obtuse cone in the one case and a balloon in the other.

Sarah said aloud, startling Eleanor as she concentrated on a particularly obtuse paragraph about the Hanged Man card.

Not that I made it that difficult, but the thief-takers have been alarmingly obtuse during my short, colorful career.

It is then continued down angularly to about the centre of the anterior edge of the scapular shield, where it forms an obtuse angle with its posterior but major half.

One to 2 inches broad and even more, convex, plane, often unequal, obtuse, sticky, and even, smooth, flesh of the same color as cap.

The edges were obtuse, the caps fleshy, then corky, smooth, the upper ends not regular, oblique in the form of an umbo or little knob, the pellicles or outside layers thin and easily separated.

Lauren was being deliberately obtuse, she just thought it was impossible to comprehend exactly what Rhys had done.

They were strangely obtuse to the repercussions of their fiats on the lives of men and women.

The smallest is also of a very odd shape, being almost as narrow as a lancet window, with, however, a rather obtuse arch.

This doorway on the inner side is divided by a cluster of shafts, and above it is an oblong piece of masonry ornamented with arcading enclosed in an obtuse arch.