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Meanings of lumpen in English

Mentally sluggish.

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Examples for "unthinking"
1
The process they relied on was the unthinking stupidity of the sheep.
The Man in the Twilight
2
John had given her two hours' notice, the classic unthinking husband's trick.
Timescape
3
He just wants to keep that easy, unthinking, feeling in his bowling.
The Guardian
4
He stood in the breach in Washington against unthinking partisanship, he said.
Radio NZ
5
Even the unthinking garrulity of Union Mills and the Judge was checked.
On the Frontier
1
Press the spikes into the lumpish and uncouth monster of thy flesh.
Essays in Rebellion
2
He still looked quite lumpish, only now he was a living lump.
The red pyramid
3
His hands hung nearly to his knees; he was heavy, short, lumpish.
Michael
4
I just felt lumpish and my eyes kept getting fixed on things.
I capture the castle
5
No sound broke the silence but the lumpish snoring of Schwartz.
Jezebel's Daughter
Usage of lumpen in English
1
Do we really want to see a return to lumpen mad-for-its?
The Irish Times
2
I've no interest in playing lumpen heavy rock from the later PIL albums.
The Guardian
3
This lumpen globe may be heavy but it is spiritually empty.
The Guardian
4
One a lumpen oaf, whose only value lay in his fists.
The last testament
5
The two enormous doormen emerged, carrying a lumpen shape wrapped in a blanket.
The road to rome: a forgotten legion chronicle
6
This teenager was a lumpen creature, given to wild sobbing moods.
Shadows in Bronze
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She in no way enjoyed having those scarred and lumpen killers' physiognomies so near.
Rogues
8
The family's basket of lumpen potatoes would last a week.
Reuters
9
It's too much for one little lumpen paperweight to bear.
The Guardian
10
To play two lumpen tacklers in those positions is anachronistic.
The Guardian
11
The problem was the resultant squall was lumpen, discordant rubbish.
The Irish Times
12
Seasons are adhered to, of course, for without that there is nothing but lumpen tediousness.
The Irish Times
13
Nothing grew but the lumpen forms of juniper trees.
The cactus eaters: how I lost my mind-and almost found myself-on...
14
But for all its lumpen heft, the building still acts as a magnet for activity.
The Guardian
15
It should even do away with lumpen -and often self-fulfilling-ability-streaming of classes.
The Irish Times
16
What about the lumpen secondary division of the Premiership?
The Irish Times
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Lumpen through the time