muddleheadedness

But the sheer mass of factual inaccuracy among conservatives goes way beyond occasional ignorance or muddleheadedness.

Matthew Yglesias » Bartlett: New Deal Failed Because It Wasn’t Big Enough 2009

In Nigeria, the brouhaha around the demotion of some police officers including the former boss of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Nuhu Ribadu reeks of the typically Nigerian muddleheadedness.

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In Nigeria, the brouhaha around the demotion of some police officers including the former boss of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Nuhu Ribadu reeks of the typically Nigerian muddleheadedness.

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It reassures me to know that, in spite of the intellectual shortcomings of documentary filmmaking, in spite of the muddleheadedness of moviemakers, in spite of the trivialities of mere showmanship, I have put my message across.

'The Memory of Justice': An Exchange Brombert, Victor 1977

He took the man's keys softly, and went to the gate; it afforded him less pleasure to observe that the gate was unlocked, but he put this down to the keeper's muddleheadedness.

The Fortieth Door Mary Hastings Bradley

Mercilessness and muddleheadedness are met together; unrighteousness and unreasonableness have kissed each other; and the tempter and the tempted are agreed.

The Crimes of England 1905

Seminal headaches -- as I would call them -- have ceased since 50; the accumulation only produces muddleheadedness.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899

For overaccumulation, with headache or muddleheadedness, the wifely hand is more efficacious than the vulva.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899

It reveals one's own muddleheadedness in a disagreeable way, and yet strengthens one's conviction that the only things one can do about literature are to write it, read it, or publish it: all this jaw is pure waste of time.

RosieBell 2010

It is at best mere muddleheadedness, therefore, to present the Keynesian nostrums as a free enterprise or "individualistic" alternative to socialism.

Mises Dailies 2009