Crossword clues for dim-witted
dim-witted
The Collaborative International Dictionary
dim-witted \dim-witted\ adj. mentally retarded; relatively slow in mental function.
Syn: half-witted, simple, simple-minded. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] ||
Wiktionary
a. Being a dimwit; stupid; foolish; simple. alt. Being a dimwit; stupid; foolish; simple.
WordNet
adj. lacking mental capacity and devoid of subtlety [syn: half-witted, simple, simple-minded]
Usage examples of "dim-witted".
He considered them all dim-witted clots, whose only value was a willingness to die in place.
No, the dim-witted, stars-in-her-eyes Tina had been a much safer, much smarter move.
But the programs they wrote were so simple that they barely taxed the capacity of the most dim-witted Struth machine.
This was the account of that last gamble in which he had cast his gift and his life against money, wealth, and lostthe clipped fragment of news-sheet which recorded the end not of one, life but of three, though even here two of them cast but one shadow: not only that of the harmless dim-witted woman but of Joel Flint and Signer Canova too, with scattered among them and marking the date of that death too, the cautiously worded advertisements in Variety and Billboard, using the new changed name and no takers probably, since Signer Canova the Great was already dead then and already serving his purgatory in this circus for six months and that circus for eightbandsman, ringman, Bornean wild man, down to the last stage where he touched bottom: the travelling from country town to country town with a roulette wheel wired against imitation watches and pistols which would not shoot, until one day instinct perhaps showed him one more chance to use the gift again.
This was done over and over until even the most dim-witted knew what they had to do.
Wellington grumped, "I surely hope our dim-witted friends the Gradygroat gunners are enjoying themselves this morning in their xaxtdamned useless space forts.
They love to eat and drink, play mumblety-peg with dim-witted quadrupeds, and tell off-color dwarf jokes.
Latterly, estate workers had used the place as a tied cottage, but then it had lain empty for many, many years until Bethan Kindred, tutor to Sir Russell Bleeth's somewhat dim-witted youngest son, Hugo, had taken up residence, eventually giving birth to her own son there.
And only this dim-witted centurion, only Varnell could have provided the Tal Shiar with that information!