fatheaded

adjective

: dull-witted : markedly foolish : stupid, idiotic

fatheadedly adverb

By then, I owned an Amiga computer, and was prone to prickliness when users of Atari's ST line fatheadedly contended that their machines were superior to mine.

—Harry McCracken, PC World, 19 May 2010

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