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Definition of Halfwits
1. halfwit [n] - See also: halfwit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Halfwits
Literary usage of Halfwits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Glimpses of Authors by Caroline Ticknor (1922)
"It is intended to please the aged and the halfwits of our time, those who are
suffering for want of sleep. Under the circumstances you can hardly be ..."
2. The British Essayists;: With Prefaces, Historical and Biographical, by Alexander Chalmers (1808)
"halfwits do not apprehend the miseries that must necessarily flow from a de-
generacy of manners; nor do they know that order is the support of society. ..."
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