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Recent Examples of feebleminded
That, Dovey Johnson Roundtree knew, could have immense significance for her client, a feebleminded day laborer accused of one of the most sensational murders of the mid-20th century.
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Margalit Fox, New York Times, 21 May 2018
While the Queen is patient and nurturing with her addled husband, even making excuses for him when his erratic behavior turns violent, others in Madrid see his feebleminded unpredictability as cause for urgent replacement.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2017
Margalit Fox, New York Times, 21 May 2018
While the Queen is patient and nurturing with her addled husband, even making excuses for him when his erratic behavior turns violent, others in Madrid see his feebleminded unpredictability as cause for urgent replacement.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for feebleminded
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Tranquillity, often simple but rarely simpleminded, may be Ruscha’s essential quality as an artist.Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
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But in general election terms, impeachment is a boon for the Democrats, which is why McCarthy is desperately trying to slow-walk these simpleminded drives for vengeance.Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 7 July 2023
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Ratajkowski has been fighting the stereotype of the dumb model from the beginning of her career.Daniel Jackson, Allure, 18 July 2017
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Ninety nine percent of all NFL players are explicitly not dumb.Andy Benoit, The MMQB, 10 July 2017
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Wild Card with Rachel Martin Issa Rae on the belief that gets her through 'stupid mistakes and bad decisions' Lithgow: More.Rachel Martin, NPR, 8 Dec. 2024
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For the people stupid enough to have trusted a midwit career bureaucrat as unscrupulous as President Joe Biden, there’s a sixth stage just before acceptance: delusion.Becket Adams, National Review, 8 Dec. 2024
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Whereas Navalny was poisoned, DT is actually doing the poisoning of his weak-minded supporters.Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2024
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Quickly, and almost imperceptibly, the impressionable and weak-minded Ernest is coaxed into Hale’s running, murderous plot to accrue even more Osage wealth.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024
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In short: Wells assumed Neanderthals were unintelligent brutes.Byrd Pinkerton, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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But the gullible, easily-led and unintelligent — and the media — all fall for the lie.Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Nov. 2024
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Nadella doesn’t say outright what everyone in the room knows: Just a decade ago, pundits had declared the company brain-dead.Steven Levy, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
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All the ingredients for a romp are there, from the blinkered heroine to the delicious possibilities of brain-dead Hollywood pitchspeak.Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2024
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By most accounts, Trump’s ground game—powered by the witless Musk—was a bit of a mess, but Harris’s professional field operation seems to have been helpless to stem the tide of Trump’s support.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2024
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But apparently, California just couldn’t abide this challenge to its primacy as the most witless state in the union.Noah Rothman, National Review, 23 Sep. 2024
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This fatuous facial gesture is immediately relatable but also, as Locke discusses below, one that can be read in a number of different ways.Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 20 Nov. 2024
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Schools must accept that mission statements without curriculum alignment are fatuous; the way schools define themselves is through the experience that flows from their curriculum.Ray Ravaglia, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
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“Feebleminded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feebleminded. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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