Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having or exhibiting a lack of judgment or conviction.
- adjective Foolish; silly.
- adjective Of less than normal intellect. Not in scientific use.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of a weak mind; of feeble intellect; also, indicating weakness of mind.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a weak mind, either naturally or by reason of disease; feebleminded; foolish; idiotic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective lacking
judgement - adjective
foolish - adjective
mentally deficient
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Examples
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ALWAYS a cutting self-critic, Charles Ives said he hadn't been adventurous enough in his four violin sonatas, written in what he called his "weak-minded, retrogressive moments."
NYT > Home Page By ZACHARY WOOLFE 2011
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ALWAYS a cutting self-critic, Charles Ives said he hadn't been adventurous enough in his four violin sonatas, written in what he called his "weak-minded, retrogressive moments."
NYT > Home Page By ZACHARY WOOLFE 2011
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After a given electoral defeat, the left consoles itself with the illusion that a cabal of this nature would have contrived the lowest, slimiest smear it could have hoped to get away with, found some moneybags to fund it, snuck it into the public debate, and swayed the weak-minded.
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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You seem to suggest, johnboy, that I'm weak-minded and indecisive.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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The idea is that we got into this mess because voters wanted something for nothing and weak-minded politicians catered to the electorate's foolishness.
Robert Teitelman: Krugman on the Policy Elites Robert Teitelman 2011
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Could she truly be so shallow as to be drawn to a weak-minded, contemptible villein better suited to walk behind an ox plowing fields than dare to lift his eyes to a queen?
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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But the risk of him hypnotizing enough of the weak-minded is simply too great.
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I am certainly not a weak-minded "ditto head" that's afraid to leave the safety of the group.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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This Republican Thanksgiving Day message to the nation is fatuous in the fullest sense of the word (asinine, brainless, foolish, sheepheaded, silly, unwitty, weak-headed, weak-minded, and witless).
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It would be interesting to see some of the Chiefs being brought to task for this state of affairs, and how their spin, deceit and weak-minded conformity have contributed to the overall destruction of a once worthy profession.
Blogging in Tehran (good) Blogging in Lancashire (bad) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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