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Definition of Boneheaded
1. Adjective. (used informally) stupid.
Similar to: Stupid
Definition of Boneheaded
1. Adjective. (slang) like a bonehead ¹
2. Adjective. (slang) like something a bonehead would do ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Boneheaded
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boneheaded
Literary usage of Boneheaded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1915)
"... that the Reclamation Service was composed largely of boneheaded incompetents
whose ignorance was equalled only by their assumption of autocratic powers. ..."
2. What I Saw in America by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1922)
"There are a great many Franco-American resemblances which the practical Anglo-
Saxons are of course too hard-headed (or boneheaded) to see. ..."
3. My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World by Julian Dibbell (1998)
"... any players too green to know they had to type open door before exiting would
find their boneheaded, nose-flattening collision with the pane announced ..."
4. Gunner Depew by Albert N. Depew (1918)
"... so unusual — a boneheaded German. There was a lot of bamboo near the Russian
barracks, and the Russians made baskets out of it and turned them in to the ..."
5. In the Alaska-Yukon Game-lands by John A. McGuire (1921)
"... me the yearling elk, deer or any other wild animal that would exhibit such
boneheaded- ness! It was just such doings as this that made me think that ..."
6. A Diplomatic Diary by Hugh Gibson (1917)
"It was finally discovered that some boneheaded clerk had sent it by mail—a matter
of three days. It was fished out of the military post office, ..."
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