Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having hair that looks or feels like wool.
- adjective Vague or muddled.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Woolly-haired or ulotrichous, as a person.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a person
Illogical ,irrational .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective confused and vague; used especially of thinking
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Examples
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Soon, in-the-trenches anti-poverty practitioners with long experience, community-based organizations close to their clients, market-based programs with real revenues and real customers, and experimental, innovative initiatives with great promise may be written off as woolly-headed, undisciplined or unscalable simply because they are un-evaluated.
Jonathan Lewis: Social Impact Evaluation: Useful? Utopian? (Part 1 of 4) Jonathan Lewis 2011
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While I was busy arguing and persuading the woolly-headed cannibals to come and labor on the Queensland plantations Otoo kept watch.
THE HEATHEN 2010
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Soon, in-the-trenches anti-poverty practitioners with long experience, community-based organizations close to their clients, market-based programs with real revenues and real customers, and experimental, innovative initiatives with great promise may be written off as woolly-headed, undisciplined or unscalable simply because they are un-evaluated.
Jonathan Lewis: Social Impact Evaluation: Useful? Utopian? (Part 1 of 4) Jonathan Lewis 2011
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In the grass-thatched barracks nearly two hundred woolly-headed man-eaters slept off the weariness of the day's toil, though several lifted their heads to listen to the curses of one who cursed the white man who never slept.
Chapter 1 2010
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While I was busy arguing and persuading the woolly-headed cannibals to come and labor on the Queensland plantations Otoo kept watch.
THE HEATHEN 2010
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Soon, in-the-trenches anti-poverty practitioners with long experience, community-based organizations close to their clients, market-based programs with real revenues and real customers, and experimental, innovative initiatives with great promise may be written off as woolly-headed, undisciplined or unscalable simply because they are un-evaluated.
Jonathan Lewis: Social Impact Evaluation: Useful? Utopian? (Part 1 of 4) Jonathan Lewis 2011
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Soon, in-the-trenches anti-poverty practitioners with long experience, community-based organizations close to their clients, market-based programs with real revenues and real customers, and experimental, innovative initiatives with great promise may be written off as woolly-headed, undisciplined or unscalable simply because they are un-evaluated.
Jonathan Lewis: Social Impact Evaluation: Useful? Utopian? (Part 1 of 4) Jonathan Lewis 2011
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While I was busy arguing and persuading the woolly-headed cannibals to come and labor on the Queensland plantations Otoo kept watch.
THE HEATHEN 2010
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If the President turns out to be right — and let's hope he is — a century's worth of woolly-headed liberal dreamers will be vindicated.
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It was the reason that 90 percent of my woolly-headed generation, when asked what they wanted to be, would answer at some point, “Marine biologist.”
Kook Peter Heller 2010
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