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Meanings of half-witted in inglés
Retarded in intellectual development.
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Examples for "backward"
Examples for "backward"
1
Of course, we can't travel backward in time: nobody can do that.
2
You can't look backward here; you have to look to the future.
3
Unfortunately, both writers are attempting to move forward while actually facing backward.
4
It's a backward place, and there's no high society to speak of.
5
Forward and backward flight, and speeds up to sixty miles per hour.
1
Beautiful but feebleminded, Kikuko was the other object of her mother's devotion.
2
Others had become completely feebleminded, their whole expression was that of stupidity.
3
Perhaps a feebleminded dolphin who was not responsible for his actions did it.
4
A distinctly pathological type is found in some feebleminded and some high mentalities.
5
He did not come within the limits of the feebleminded group.
1
That wasn't to say he was slow-witted or combative; he was neither.
2
She was, in addition, shy and slow-witted to the verge of stupidity.
3
He asked questions as rapidly as the slow-witted anthropoid could answer them.
4
Looking back on the problem, I accuse myself of being rather slow-witted.
5
Not even the principal and teachers, slow-witted and provincial as they seemed.
Usage of half-witted in inglés
1
It was that half-witted lad then who had perished in the park.
2
A half-witted boy of the school became enamored of the young master.
3
A half-witted old Tartar; you will get nothing out of him, sir.
4
Now, it is entirely weak and half-witted to appeal to the future.
5
The man on the farm was a half-witted old fellow named Mook.
6
He spoke in a wild, incoherent way, and seemed to be half-witted.
7
He wandered about the isthmus, half-witted, forgetting his name, nursing one idea.
8
They wanted no half-witted children of Evie's-tobe a care and drag.
9
In 1655, I was indicted at Hicks's-Hall by a half-witted young woman.
10
That time the reactionaries followed the leadership of Peter's half-witted son, Alexis.
11
You're always ready with some plausible excuse for that half-witted young scoundrel.
12
And besides, this girl looked like some sort of half-witted fifteen-year-old anarchist.
13
That scarecrow, Giles, half-witted as he is, tells too straightforward a story.
14
But his words were not the words of a half-witted boy.
15
The half-witted creature did not seem to see the point of this remark.
16
It is the half-witted creature, who had followed and loved Komel so well.
Half-witted through the time