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  • adjective Alternative spelling of woolly-minded.

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  • adjective confused and vague; used especially of thinking

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Examples

  • He is not motivated by the socialist or Marxist propaganda that hypnotized a whole generation of wooly-minded academics and condescending liberals -- those concepts also leave him cold.

    Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: D'Souza's Rage as a Cover Michael Shaw 2010

  • He is not motivated by the socialist or Marxist propaganda that hypnotized a whole generation of wooly-minded academics and condescending liberals -- those concepts also leave him cold.

    Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: D'Souza's Rage as a Cover Michael Shaw 2010

  • Thus the forces of death are confident and organized while the forces of life--the people who long for peace---are, for the most part, scattered, inarticulate, and wooly-minded, overwhelmed by their own impotence.

    Lay the blame at the door of human nature Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • Thus the forces of death are confident and organized while the forces of life--the people who long for peace---are, for the most part, scattered, inarticulate, and wooly-minded, overwhelmed by their own impotence.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • At first, Reagan was inclined to eschew human rights as just another part of Jimmy Carter's wooly-minded liberalism.

    The Abandonment of Democracy By Joshua Muravchik 2009

  • It seems a puzzling and inescapable fact of life that to be cultured involves a degree of surrender to wooly-minded 'liberalism' that eschews pragmatism and the hard decisions.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Don't be put off by the wooly-minded comparisons with Tarantino.

    Not even a proper subject amuchmoreexotic 2005

  • If our foolish energy policy has forced us into the arms of the likes of Gaddafi, then we can only blame the same wooly-minded ethicists who have put us there.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009

  • You claim to be wooly-minded and wrong; this is a condition that can be corrected with clear thinking, something that you are not willing to do.

    Pharyngula 2008

  • To start, they should re-read Jarvis’s piece and stop listening to well-meaning, wooly-minded folks who maintain that newspapers are basically sound…”unfairly” caught between the recession and the increasing price of newsprint.

    Getting past newspapers’ past « BuzzMachine 2009

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