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obtuse
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obtuse as in:  she is obtuse

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  • "Obtuse," I said.†  (source)
  • Yes, but still,' said Hermione, with an air of explaining something very simple to somebody very obtuse, 'even if you do cause a diversion, how is Harry supposed to talk to him?†  (source)
  • Don't be so obtuse.†  (source)
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  • How obtuse of me.†  (source)
  • 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.
  • It is the systematic operation, which always and obtusely succeeds, the well-planned response to life's uncertainties and complications.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • Bella, for a fairly intuitive person, you can be so obtuse!†  (source)
  • 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)
  • What had made her so blind, so obtuse?†  (source)
  • His obtuseness frustrated me.†  (source)
  • He imagines how obtuse and disconnected Cedric must feel.†  (source)
  • "Why, because she couldn't get any one else, of course," said "Pap" Rheinhart, impatient at this obtuseness.†  (source)
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