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Definition of Nitwitted
1. Adjective. (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment.
Definition of Nitwitted
1. Adjective. Being like a nitwit; being stupid or foolish. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nitwitted
Literary usage of Nitwitted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1891)
"... and Frenchmen and Spaniards acknowledged that they had nitwitted. Few were
aware of the real weakness of the Spanish fleet, whicli had forced on Cordova ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"We have all suffered from that intolerable tedium of 'elementary' chemistry, with
its cookery-book recipes and the nitwitted laws called by solemn names, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1824)
"To make a nitwitted, old, blind creature like that tell such a tale, without for
a moment using an expression out of his own character, and yet tell it with ..."
4. Thoughts on the Moral Order of Nature by Anna Maria Winter (1831)
"... to improve to the ut- mo*t, their own personal character, in a country nitwitted
to arbitrary rulers. ..."
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