lean-witted
adj1
Archaic Lacking in intelligence or shrewdness.
- And thou a lunatic lean-witted fool Presuming on an ague's privilege1595 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):
- there is not a street boy who holds your horse but has a laugh, and a good one, at the lean-witted, dull Bavarian1877, Walter Thornbury, “Athens under King Otho”, in The Gentleman's Magazine: