muddleheadedness

Had he, perhaps, been his own muddleheadedness that had put him on the wrong road?

Mercilessness and muddleheadedness are met together; unrighteousness and unreasonableness have kissed each other; and the tempter and the tempted are agreed.

Bethune-Baker was learned and clear-headed in his writing, quick in repartee, astringent as a critic, angered by muddleheadedness in his colleagues, and willing to use sarcasm.

But in "High School" Mr. Wiseman's fair and objective eye observes a kind of official insensitivity, in combination with earnest muddleheadedness, woefully outdated civic notions and stupefying arrogance.

BEFORE I start arguing that it's muddleheaded, and misses the point, to disparage the greatness of a baseball player for his want of goodness as a man - before I rise to the defense of Jose Canseco - let me begin by offering one example of my own muddleheadedness in this regard.