Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Wooden character or quality; stiffness; lack of spirit or expression; clumsiness; stupidity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Quality of being wooden; clumsiness; stupidity; blockishness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
wooden .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being wooden and awkward
Etymologies
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Examples
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The apathy and "woodenness" of children under average modes of pedagogy is apparent to anyone who is interested enough to observe.
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What reader of novels has not felt the "woodenness" of this mode of telling?
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What reader of novels has not felt the "woodenness" of this mode of telling?
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Mr. Gryzlov, 61 years old, long embodied the woodenness and sense of entitlement of Russia's ruling party under Mr. Putin, and once famously remarked that Parliament was "no place for discussion."
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Even Seurat, whose famous "Sunday on the Grande Jatte" has never ceased to disappoint me because of its woodenness, is forgiven, in my eyes - for the exhibition has, instead, a number his studies, or études, for that fabled composition.
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Even Seurat, whose famous "Sunday on the Grande Jatte" has never ceased to disappoint me because of its woodenness, is forgiven, in my eyes - for the exhibition has, instead, a number his studies, or études, for that fabled composition.
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Also, do not mock my woodenness in the graduation photo--relaxed scholarly owl stance was not taught in advance!
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Also, do not mock my woodenness in the graduation photo--relaxed scholarly owl stance was not taught in advance!
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Also, do not mock my woodenness in the graduation photo--relaxed scholarly owl stance was not taught in advance!
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I spent more of my time wincing at the woodenness of the prose than following the story, and without "story" a novel like Little Children has nothing.
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