But they were steady and none of them were slow-witted. From Wordnik.com. [2005]
Now Ysabel's dead, and her poor, slow-witted servant with her. From Wordnik.com. [The Goblin Mirror]
Joe was so tongue-tied that his sisters thought him slow-witted. From Wordnik.com. [The Dimaggio Nobody Knew] Reference
Every year the great, slow-witted animal must renew his head-gear. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference
For I cannot help seeing things now and then, slow-witted as I have. From Wordnik.com. [Lorna Doone] Reference
Mother would realize that she wasn't so slow-witted and crazy, after all. From Wordnik.com. [Tales From The Secret Annex]
I may be too old and slow-witted to climb another rung of the cyberspace ladder. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Diary: Disgusted With the Dems?] Reference
One device after another has been added for the extermination of the slow-witted. From Wordnik.com. [By the Christmas Fire] Reference
Though rough-seeming and slow-witted, he was an honest man, and good at his trade. From Wordnik.com. [The Wicked Day]
When you explain it like that, it becomes clear I was simply being a bit slow-witted. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Cage plays Kaufman as well as his genial, slow-witted (and fictitious) twin brother, Donald. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions Of An Outrageous Mind] Reference
But for the most part these slow-witted men without a quiver saw death creeping on the raft. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Blue Pete] Reference
But we reached the village safely, so I said to myself that the Huron had grown slow-witted. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
This place was usually used for the elementary education of the very young, the slow-witted. From Wordnik.com. [Tides Of Light]
Without actually being a dunce, he was slow-witted, and I remember they used to say about him. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Memoirs]
When he went downstairs again, he looked as slow-witted as before, with eyes which scarcely moved. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret has Scruples]
Death, like Life, had been a quite incomprehensible puzzle to that slow-witted one who had no name. From Wordnik.com. [Then I'll Come Back to You] Reference
The real question as always will be how the very impressionable and slow-witted Media will cover this. From Wordnik.com. [CNN: McCain Picks Sarah Palin As Veep] Reference
I wish there was a way TV could portray southerners in such a way that they do not appear slow-witted. From Wordnik.com. [static in my attic from channel z] Reference
But, dear me, how slow-witted I have been, and how nearly I have committed the blunder of my lifetime!. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of the Abbey Grange.] Reference
"I am afraid your slow-witted companions will no longer be able to help you or anyone else, Skywalker.". From Wordnik.com. [Splinter Of The Mind's Eye]
McCain talks to everyone (especially potential voters) as if they are particularly slow-witted children. From Wordnik.com. [At Presser In Jordan, Obama Details His Conversation With Petraeus] Reference
And that will only prove that old, middle-aged white people are, in general, rather dim and slow-witted. From Wordnik.com. [Obama: I "Profoundly Disagree" With Pastor Over "God Damn America" Comments] Reference
Eline's bossy, no-nonsense sister Betsy gradually recognizes that her beloved only child is slow-witted. From Wordnik.com. [Tolstoy and Trollope Fans, Meet Couperus] Reference
Some industry wags called Levin "Forrest Gump," after the slow-witted movie character, say Hollywood executives. From Wordnik.com. [One More Stab At It] Reference
It is even seeping into the consciousness of the slow-witted dinosaurs on Wall Street that something is awfully wrong. From Wordnik.com. [But Did Elizabeth Edwards Really Accuse Hillary Of "Behaving Like A Man"?] Reference
I'm truly sorry if you're so slow-witted that you can only hold one thought and one task in your head at the same time. From Wordnik.com. [GOP Sen. Susan Collins: Edwards Is The Father] Reference
A little slow-witted, Nikolai summed him up, a little girlish, decidedly different from Bogdan's headlong rush at life. From Wordnik.com. [The Goblin Mirror]
He stood there for so long I thought he was sick, and then I thought maybe he was slow-witted so I didn't go over to him. From Wordnik.com. [Songs of the Humpback Whale]
Luckily I'm normally too slow-witted ever to respond to blandishments, even to recognize them, until the moment has passed. From Wordnik.com. [A Cynic Explains The Russian Spying Scandal] Reference
The farmer, knowing that the man was very slow-witted, gave him most careful instructions as to everything that he was to do. From Wordnik.com. [The Orange Fairy Book] Reference
But the wager had been fair, after all, and it wasn't Cord's fault that Chert had been too slow-witted to detect his friend's ruse. From Wordnik.com. [Night Arrant]
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