Meanings of dunderheaded in English

Amelia's response was casual -even, Radio thought, a bit dunderheaded technologically.

He regarded it as a mixture of jealousy and dunderheaded prejudice.

Yet that was exactly what a dunderheaded policeman believed.

Such dunderheaded readings neglect the film's emotional depth.

His handling is so breezy as to gloss over the improbabilities of the dunderheaded, macho plotline.

This dunderheaded giantess of a Mrs. Grundy condemns me to be miserable, and I am powerless.

And when there is a role on offer, it's often written with a dunderheaded take on race.

I told myself I was merely clutching at straws, lying in a sleep-induced cloud of dunderheaded hope.

In 55.1 overs of the most dunderheaded nonsense imaginable, they collapsed for 191.

For money, you dunderheaded boy.

You great big dunderheaded fool!

And for all that he so often plays the jackass-fool about women, like Grandma Pendomer, he is a man, Jack- awell-meaning ,cleanand dunderheaded man!

Shades here of poor old Graham Taylor against Norway ("the Norwegian players are in awe of Gascoigne") and that familiar dunderheaded sense of unearned superiority.

"A more remarkable phenomenon still," said I, "is the dunderheaded male."

"You dunderheaded little jay!" she screamed, "Why don't you do as I tell you?"

"Whereas, I, you see," he continued, "just buzz about life like a dunderheaded old bumble-bee.