clumsy-minded

Updated: May 14, 2025

So the Old Senior Surgeon had forestalled her inquisitiveness with a tale adorned with all the pretty imaginings that he, "a clumsy-minded old gruffian," could conjure up. Margaret MacLean remembered the story word for word as we remember "The House That Jack Built."

Ruth Sawyer - The Primrose Ring

Churchouse here is the best gentleman on God's earth; but he don't understand a mother's heart how should he? and he don't know what a lot women have got to hide from men for their own self-respect, and because men as a body are such clumsy-minded fools speaking generally, of course." To see even Mrs. Dinnett dealing thus in ideas excited Ernest and filled him with interest.

Eden Phillpotts - The Spinners