Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having but little sense or shrewdness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having but little sense or shrewdness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic Lacking in
sense orshrewdness .
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Examples
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"I was about to relieve a certain surplusage of emotion," I retorted, "by observing that I regret to find you, sir, a chattering, lean-witted fool -- a vain and improvident fool!"
Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918
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