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woolly-headed

a. (context of a person , or of an argument or thought process English) illogical, irrational.

WordNet
woolly-headed

adj. confused and vague; used especially of thinking; "muddleheaded ideas"; "your addled little brain"; "woolly thinking"; "woolly-headed ideas" [syn: addled, befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly, wooly, wooly-minded]

Usage examples of "woolly-headed".

While I was busy arguing and persuading the woolly-headed cannibals to come and labor on the Queensland plantations Otoo kept watch.

They had turned his woolly-headed romantic notion of a single duel into a death-trap.

She had to make and receive at least fourteen presents,—to make fourteen solemn promises of writing every week: “Send my letters under cover to my grandpapa, the Earl of Dexter,” said Miss Saltire (who, by the way, was rather shabby): “Never mind the postage, but write every day, you dear darling,” said the impetuous and woolly-headed, but generous and affectionate Miss Swartz.

I don't know what I had expected-one of your woolly-headed darkies, I suppose, massa-ing everyone, and pathetically grateful that someone was going to risk his neck to help him to freedom.

Now, you may call that woolly-headed idealism if you like - but I call it hard-headed human compassion.