Sentence examples for slow-wittedness from inspiring English sources

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Why does he keep Watson around when he has so little patience with slow-wittedness?

If the co-operation of audience members is the fuel to Wills' shtick, then it is their occasional incomprehension and slow-wittedness that allows him his major character traits: incredulity (expressed through much raising of eyebrows), gentle sarcasm (lots of ironic thumbs up) and, sometimes, Basil Fawltyesque impatience (hand gesticulations aplenty).

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Community handles this sentimentality well, which adds warmth to its quick-wittedness.

A colourful exchange that relies on the quick-wittedness and ingenuity of both parties.

That's the kind of bawdy quick-wittedness that has rescued Mr. Norton in the past.

The criminal behaviour is one thing, the dim-wittedness quite another.

Clegg did not have the time, or the quick-wittedness, to come back at him.

Consider the intelligence of art, compared with the dim-wittedness of politics.

Rival private channels express a starkly different view, chronicling police brutality, electoral shenanigans and government dim-wittedness.

In his Cruiskeen Lawn column in the Irish Times, Myles produced a fountain of laughter and quick-wittedness.

She doesn't use her femininity to seduce her enemies, but her quick wittedness and physical strength to defeat them.

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