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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "obtuseness" in a sentence

    obtuseness example sentences

    obtuseness


    1. nature is the weakness and obtuseness of the mind and its ten-


    2. the obtuseness and cussedness of the discipline that is at fault


    3. All the while Henry felt the anger and hurt building within him--he just couldn’t understand his father’s blatant obtuseness towards him


    4. That display of obtuseness nearly enraged Ingrid, who then took the gloves off


    5. Nancy, while defending her versions of things every time someone questioned her publicly, finally decided to let the Catholic Church hurt itself with its own intolerance and obtuseness and limited her actions to releasing worldwide a public statement about her beliefs and her denial of the accusations by the Catholic Church


    6. I think of the obtuseness of the judges who condemn Socrates to death with the accusation that he has corrupted the young people of the city


    7. I think of the obtuseness of many doctors who rarely listen to their patients and base their decisions on what they have in their own heads, based on their own limited knowledge


    8. "But why should I be surprised?" And once again he reflected on her apparently permanent obtuseness to values


    9. Her obtuseness to the real situation was so terribly healthy minded that it was almost a disease; the awful candour of soul of bishops' daughters and pastors' wives appalled him


    10. She irritated him as if she, too, had suffered from that inexplicable feminine obtuseness which stands so often between a man and a woman of the more ordinary sort

    11. Had this man been endowed with the slightest capacity for perceiving the feelings of others, and had he at all understood what Pierre’s feelings were, the latter would probably have left him, but the man’s animated obtuseness to everything other than himself disarmed Pierre


    12. Smith, I am afraid that I have so nicely wrapped this insult in the veil of mysteries and disguises, that it may escape observation from the obtuseness of your mental perception, but am determined it shall not


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    Synonyms for "obtuseness"

    obtuseness dullness

    "obtuseness" definitions

    the quality of being slow to understand


    the quality of lacking a sharp edge or point