Example sentences for: obtuse

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

  • 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.

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

  • I think it makes sense to ask whether people really like being told how obtuse they are, because even if the ads work on some level to inculcate a sense of superiority in the viewer--as in "These idiots don't know what 7-cents-a-minute-every-day means, but I sure do!

  • Safire castigates the Department of Justice for being obtuse in the face of this evidence and urges the Senate to step up its investigative efforts to fill the void because "a widespread, criminal conspiracy to violate Federal election laws stares the nation in the face."


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