Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a soft or silly head; silly; stupid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Weak in intellect.
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- adjective Alternative spelling of
softheaded .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective foolish; totally unsound
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Examples
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Typically, this utopian marketplace analysis is put forth with side-bar attacks on paternalistic economic development gurus, soft-headed nonprofit executives and government paper-pushers.
Jonathan Lewis: Mosquitoes and Markets Don't mix Jonathan Lewis 2010
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McLaren, however, has plenty of critics for his liberal evangelical views and some will find this politically as well as theologically soft-headed.
Pastor links Christian, Muslim hopes, Egypt's revolution 2011
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Next thing you know Ross Douthat will criticize Harvard for churning out soft-headed but well-connected “elites” instead of rigorously trained scientists.
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In the words of a famous WWII spy, "we can be high-minded without being soft-headed."
Jonathan Lewis: Point Your Moral Compass Towards Social and Economic Justice Jonathan Lewis 2011
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Some are also taking a soft-headed look, as if they were already demented beyond grappling with reality.
Raging Against Aging Henry Allen 2011
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Most of the OSS girls were “soft-headed dopes,” who, he wrote, “with their uncomprehending sex appeal and limited understandings, have almost no magnetism for me, except in a very surface fashion.”
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Typically, this utopian marketplace analysis is put forth with side-bar attacks on paternalistic economic development gurus, soft-headed nonprofit executives and government paper-pushers.
Jonathan Lewis: Mosquitoes and Markets Don't mix Jonathan Lewis 2010
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He is a doomed, condemned man and his sentence will not be commuted by soft-headed jailers.
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Most of the OSS girls were “soft-headed dopes,” who, he wrote, “with their uncomprehending sex appeal and limited understandings, have almost no magnetism for me, except in a very surface fashion.”
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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In the words of a famous WWII spy, "we can be high-minded without being soft-headed."
Jonathan Lewis: Point Your Moral Compass Towards Social and Economic Justice Jonathan Lewis 2011
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