Sentence examples for thick-headed from inspiring English sources

The word 'thick-headed' is a correct and commonly used term in written English
It is an adjective that means someone who is slow to understand or has a lack of intelligence. Example: The new employee was constantly making mistakes and struggled to learn the company's procedures. His co-workers often referred to him as thick-headed.

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thick-headed

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Sluggish and obtuse of mind

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"I am not being thick-headed".

In general, though, Americans are portrayed as Sylvester Stallone, lunky and thick-headed.

He has been pretty thick-headed for the past few episodes.

To call someone a clot seems rather a mild insult now, but who wants to be defamed as thick-headed?

We meet him seconds later, to find that, yes, this is one greasy, jumped-up, smack-addled, thick-headed slimeball.

That mouthful of a name roughly translates as "thick-headed reptiles" and this time at least it's a fair comment.

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Pachycephalosaurus (; meaning "thick headed lizard," from Greek pachys-/παχυς- "thick", kephale/κεφαλη "head" and sauros/σαυρος "lizard") is a genus of pachycephalosaurid dinosaurs.

Pollarding, cutting of top tree branches back to the trunk, leaving club-headed stems that grow a thick head of new branches.

Is the U.S. Congress that thick headed, or worse yet -- been bought out by interests to a degree, that they don't mind throwing more weapons into the region and they think it will... help?!

The rate of EMT increases with increasing Nodal activity from the cell and its neighbours; Nodal-active emt cells (red + blue = purple) lose the ability to rejoin the epithelium (thicker, single-headed arrow).

The increasing availability of bone PET and SPET, with coincidence counting with a two-headed thick-crystal camera, has led to the wider application of F-18 DG, deoxyglucose, and F-18 fluorine in evaluating bone metastases.

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