beef-witted

The total guff he buys is instantly snapped up by beef-witted city-boy cretins to distract them from the emptiness.

Four Rooms: how to beat the experts 2011

Leon had apparently managed to corner some poor woman and was no doubt sharing whatever dumb-ass theory his beef-witted brain stem was promulgating at the moment.

Old Mans War 2005

The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord!

Troilus and Cressida 2004

Even so, my nephew Gerald (the present Duke of Denver) is nothing but a beef-witted English squire, and my niece Mary was flighty and foolish enough till she married a policeman and settled down.

Unnatural Death Sayers, Dorothy L.Lord Peter 03 1988

Never was among such a beef-witted set of addlepates since I was born.

Austin and His Friends Frederic H. Balfour

Purple with Port, beef-witted, tyrannical, intolerant, ignorant, never happy unless when on horseback or drunk, nor looking happy then.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various

Even so, my nephew Gerald (the present Duke of Denver) is nothing but a beef-witted English squire, and my niece Mary was nighty and foolish enough till she married a policeman and settled down.

Clouds of Witness Sayers, Dorothy L. 1927

The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord!

Act II. Scene I. Troilus and Cressida 1914

It's for beef-witted squires and blear-eyed people like yourselves -- brutish, callous.

Gone to Earth Mary Gladys Meredith Webb 1904

Then I did meekly remind her of her flirtatious preferences for the young beef-witted London chaps, and her incertitude and disdainful capriciousness towards myself, who was not a beetlehead or an obtuse, but a cultivated native gentleman with high-class university degree, and an oratorical flow of language which was infallibly to land me upon the pinnacle of some tip-top judicial preferment in the Calcutta High Court of Justice.

Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895