OBTUSE in a Sentence
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Example sentences for OBTUSE, such as:
1. People who are not only weak, but silly or obtuse as well, are often in these difficulties.
2. What can you do with somebody who's so obtuse that he can't even tell that you're insulting him?.
3. When he arrives he will be met by the obtuse but resolute Lestrade, and I have no doubt that we shall have all our details filled in.
2. What can you do with somebody who's so obtuse that he can't even tell that you're insulting him?.
3. When he arrives he will be met by the obtuse but resolute Lestrade, and I have no doubt that we shall have all our details filled in.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of OBTUSE
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obtuse
a. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
a. lacking in insight or discernment
Classic Sentence:
1 When he arrives he will be met by the obtuse but resolute Lestrade, and I have no doubt that we shall have all our details filled in.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
Context Highlight In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
2 "I have been very obtuse, Watson," said he.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
Context Highlight In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
3 People who are not only weak, but silly or obtuse as well, are often in these difficulties.
4 She liked their elegance, their lightness, their lack of emphasis: even the self-assurance which at times was so like obtuseness now seemed the natural sign of social ascendency.
Example Sentence:
1 The disadvantage of the epigram is the temptation it affords to good people to explain it to the others who are assumed to be too obtuse to comprehend it alone.
2 What can you do with somebody who's so obtuse that he can't even tell that you're insulting him?.