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Stupid , as though havingwood forbrains ;blockheaded .
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Examples
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However, you have to know what to look for (or else leave yourself at the mercy of biased and woodenheaded corporate media pundits).
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The Daily Growler is definitely an artificial flower, but of the "wood rose" type: it looks like a real blog; it feels like a real blog; it smells like a real blog; and its made out of "everylasting wood," namely the staff of woodenheaded raconteurs that post it daily.
Hell's Fury The Daily Growler 2006
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British flag as from the money-lender, the dividend-drawer and the woodenheaded British official.
Collected Essays 1900
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His woodenheaded continuation of US military involvement in the Afghanistan conflict is myopic and damaging, as the increasing number of deaths among Afghan civilians and US troops shows.
Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll Kaz 2010
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His woodenheaded continuation of US military involvement in the Afghanistan conflict is myopic and damaging, as the increasing number of deaths among Afghan civilians and US troops shows.
Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll Kaz 2010
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Further, dividing our rich and diverse society into two woodenheaded classes - the worthless takers, like poor Joe, and the "doers," like moneyed Mary - setting them against one another, is exactly how class warfare is waged.
The Seattle Times 2010
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His woodenheaded continuation of US military involvement in the Afghanistan conflict is myopic and damaging, as the increasing number of deaths among Afghan civilians and US troops shows.
Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll Kaz 2010
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His woodenheaded continuation of US military involvement in the Afghanistan conflict is myopic and damaging, as the increasing number of deaths among Afghan civilians and US troops shows.
Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll Kaz 2010
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In that book Tuchman wrote of Spain's deplorably woodenheaded monarch Phillip II that the repeated failure of his policies was never enough to dissuade him of their essential excellence.
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The lovelorn Count Orsino, the bumbling Toby Belch and his clowny compadres will be cast with woodenheaded actors.
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