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  • 51blockhead — blockheaded, adj. blockheadedly, adv. blockheadedness, n. blockheadism, n. /blok hed /, n. 1. a stupid, doltish person; dunce. 2. Obs. a piece of wood in the shape of a head, used as a block for hats or wigs. [1540 50; BLOCK + HEAD] Syn. 1. fool …

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  • 52cloddish — cloddishly, adv. cloddishness, n. /klod ish/, adj. of, pertaining to, or resembling a clod or boor; doltish; stolid. [1835 45; CLOD + ISH1] * * * …

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  • 53commedia dell'arte — /keuh may dee euh del ahr tee/; It. /kawm me dyah del lahrdd te/, pl. commedia dell artes, commedias dell arte, It. commedie dell arte /kawm me dye del lahrdd te/. Italian popular comedy, developed chiefly during the 16th 18th centuries, in which …

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  • 54Sellers, Peter — orig. Richard Henry Sellers born Sept. 8, 1925, Southsea, Hampshire, Eng. died July 24, 1980, London British film actor. The son of vaudeville performers, he acted from childhood in his parents comedy act. In the early 1950s he performed on radio …

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  • 55doltishly — adverb In a doltish manner …

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  • 56doltishness — noun The characteristic of being doltish …

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  • 57obtuse — I adjective asinine, blockish, blunt, blunt witted, callous, dense, doltish, dronish, dull, dull witted, hebes, idiotic, ignorant, imbecilic, imperceptive, impercipient, insensitive, lumpish, moronic, oafish, obtusus, opaque, phlegmatic, retusus …

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  • 58opaque — I adjective addlebrained, addleheaded, addlepated, ambiguous, asinine, benighted, bewildering, birdbrained, blind, blockish, boeotian, brainless, cloddish, clouded, cloudy, concealed, confused, confusing, cryptic, dark, dense, difficult,… …

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  • 59uncouth — I adjective agrestis, awkward, barbaric, barbarous, boorish, brutish, callow, churlish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, crass, crude, discourteous, doltish, gawky, graceless, gross, heavy handed, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incultus, indelicate,… …

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  • 60asinine — Synonyms and related words: Boeotian, absurd, airy, apish, batty, beef brained, beef witted, befooled, beguiled, besotted, blockish, bovid, bovine, brainless, buffoonish, caprid, caprine, catchpenny, chumpish, cloddish, cockeyed, cowish, cowlike …

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