half-wittedness

Updated: June 24, 2025

With the release of the German musician, who was found to be simple-minded to the verge of half-wittedness, public interest waned, and the case faded out of current print.

Samuel Hopkins Adams - Average Jones

A certain picturesquely tattered man, living at some distance from the village, who was in the habit of waylaying my father at certain points on the estate, with well-timed agricultural remarks and a cunning affectation of half-wittedness and good-humour, got henceforward no half-crowns for his pains. "Mrs. Bundle has knocked off all my pensioners," my father would laughingly complain.

Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing - A Flat Iron for a Farthing: or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son