Example sentences for: obtuse

How can you use “obtuse” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Yes--men are shorter-lived, more cerebrally lopsided, more violent, better at some spatial abilities, worse at verbal abilities, more competitive but more forgiving of their competitors, more sexually jealous, more socially obtuse, and more promiscuous (at least, they'd like to be).

  • But such obtuse behavior, even if legal, causes suffering, and it's worth talking about away from the blunt, guilty-or-innocent logic of the law.

  • But other journalists ignored the story, or if they did write anything got it wrong, preferring camera-ready fantasies in which heroic outsiders challenged an obtuse Establishment.

  • But since good manners are the rule, the generalists often end up sounding as obtuse as the experts.

  • It's always nice to be noticed, but Ebert's implication--that it's silly to be conflicted about the work of an artist, even one whose technical and emotional smarts have matured at different rates--is willfully obtuse.


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