lean-witted

comparative more lean-witted · superlative most lean-witted

1. archaicLacking in intelligence or shrewdness.

   And thou a lunatic lean-witted fool Presuming on an ague's privilege

   1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

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   there is not a street boy who holds your horse but has a laugh, and a good one, at the lean-witted, dull Bavarian

   1877, Walter Thornbury, “Athens under King Otho”, in The Gentleman's Magazine