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.

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  • adjective archaic Lacking in sense or shrewdness.

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Examples

  • "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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