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obtuse adjective asinine, blockish, blunt, blunt-witted, callous, dense, doltish, dronish, dull, dull-witted, hebes, idiotic, ignorant, imbecilic, imperceptive, insensitive, lumpish, moronic, oafish, obtusus, opaque, phlegmatic, retusus, senseless, simple, slow, stupid, thick, thickheaded, torporific, uncomprehending, undiscerning, unfeeling, unintelligent, witless See also: blind, fatuous, impervious, inexpressive, opaque, unaffected How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| An especially quiet boy, Nicolas is isolated from the other children even before he arrives at the school: Everyone else goes by bus, but Nicolas's obtusely fretful father, alarmed by a recent school bus accident, insists on driving the few hundred miles to the school himself, only to forget, once there, to unpack Nicolas's luggage from the trunk. For all societies at all times have their particular blind spots, groups within their culture and also groups abroad that are especially likely to be dealt with ignorantly and obtusely. She refers obtusely to Filegate as One of the Great Unsolved Mysteries of the Clinton administration, even though the case has been solved with the Clintons exonerated even by the independent counsel. |
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