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单词 low-witted
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low-witted
low-witted adj. (a) showing or caused by malice; spiteful, mean; (b) lacking intelligence or depth; not showing or capable of serious thought.
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1742 B. Martyn Acct. shewing Progress Colony of Georgia (new ed.) Pref. sig. a2 The real Offspring of such factious and turbulent Authors; being a mean low-witted Sneer, a malicious ill-natured Invective.
1757 G. Baretti Italian Libr. 124 We have nothing in Italy but..a kind of plays..recited extempore by different companies of low-witted fellows.
1886 R. Eddy Universalism in Amer. II. ii. 111 It [sc. a speech] was satirical and low-witted, and had evidently been studied and premeditated for some time.
1940 Yale Law Jrnl. 49 1009 The act of a child between six and seven..may actually be more intelligently and consciously planned than the acts of many a low-witted adult.
2009 Monterey (Calif.) County Herald (Nexis) 15 Nov. If you're going to use low-witted tricks to move to the next level, you're probably going places you have no business going.
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