woodenheaded

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for woodenheaded
Adjective
  • In extremely dense fog where visibility is near zero, the best course of action is to first turn on your hazard lights, then simply pull into a safe location such as a parking lot of a local business, and stop.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The chestnut—nutrient dense, hardy, quietly elegant—is a symbol with global resonance.
    Todd Plummer, Vogue, 11 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Chaikesh learned to conceptualize and think of AI not as a black box (as in, an obtuse system where users can’t follow its internal logic) but as a discipline grounded in clarity and fundamentals.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
  • And suggesting that Dustin Johnson and Patrick Reed should be on a Ryder Cup team in 2025 is both willfully obtuse and indicative of a person looking back, not forward.
    Hugh Kellenberger, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Instead, watching Charles attempt to insert himself into the Garfield Administration by forging papers and sneaking into buildings feels repetitive and a bit dull.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Their life in Watertown had been ordinary, maybe even dull sometimes.
    Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Picking this team, as currently populated, to return to the Stanley Cup Final for the third year in a row is unwise.
    Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
  • In many cases, models rationalized larger bets after losses or winning streaks, even though the rules of the game made such choices statistically unwise.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • As Legally Blonde's Elle Woods, Witherspoon charted a memorable path from dumb blonde to Harvard Law School graduate.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Celebrities fight it out to be eliminated from the competition as quickly as possible to avoid being crowned the nation’s dumbest.
    Peter White, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • In Johnston’s reimagining, Jim and Credenza Twit operate the most disgusting, dangerous, and idiotic amusement park in the world, Twitlandia.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2025
  • That’s just idiotic foreign policy.
    Jamie McIntyre, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • What gave me the crazy idea to stand at the bar, listening to that woman being praised for her stupid f---ing commitment to New York City and her ugly f---ing buildings?
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Her mechanism for luring victims involves a stick, someone’s hair, her blood, and another person stupid enough to let her through their front door.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2025
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“Woodenheaded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/woodenheaded. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.

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