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obtuse
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obtuse as in:  she is obtuse

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    On the other side of the island, swathed at midday with mirage, defended by the shield of the quiet lagoon, one might dream of rescue; but here, faced by the brute obtuseness of the ocean, the miles of division, one was clamped down, one was helpless, one was condemned, one was— Simon was speaking almost in his ear.†  (source)
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    Mighty was their fuss about little matters, and marvellous, sometimes, the obtuseness that allowed greater ones to slip between their fingers!†  (source)
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    "I'm not being obtuse," he said as he crossed his arms over his chest, "but you're acute girl."†  (source)
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    He imagines how obtuse and disconnected Cedric must feel.†  (source)
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    Again there was that deliberate obtuseness in me.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    It is the systematic operation, which always and obtusely succeeds, the well-planned response to life's uncertainties and complications.†  (source)
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    She had always felt that her sensibility in this direction made up for certain obtusenesses of feeling of which she was less proud; and during the last three months she had indulged it passionately.†  (source)
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    They were obtuse; their morale was good.†  (source)
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    Had this man been endowed with the slightest capacity for perceiving the feelings of others, and had he at all understood what Pierre's feelings were, the latter would probably have left him, but the man's animated obtuseness to everything other than himself disarmed Pierre.†  (source)
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    Forgive me for being so obtuse, but what is your new job?†  (source)
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    This was so very aggravating—the more especially as I found myself making no way against his surly obtuseness—that I said, disregarding Herbert's efforts to check me,— "Come, Mr. Drummle, since we are on the subject, I'll tell you what passed between Herbert here and me, when you borrowed that money."†  (source)
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    Had he and Bernardine been so obtuse as to think the Deuxième or Peter Holland's Paris station of the CIA had overlooked tapping into his Pont-Royal telephone or bribed or enlisted the various relays of operators on the hotel's switchboard?†  (source)
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    His obtuseness frustrated me.†  (source)
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