witless
IPA: wˈɪtɫʌs
adjective
- Lacking wit or understanding; foolish.
- Indiscreet; not using clear and sound judgment.
- Mindless, lacking conscious thought or the capacity for it.
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Examples of "witless" in Sentences
- I thought it said that Bachmann and Coulter were both called "witless."
- What kind of witless fools trade the lives of others just to say I told you so?
- His lips trembled briefly, but otherwise, his face never let go of his expression of witless warmth.
- Before you welcome the show in, you should be warned that our theater critic found it "witless" and "pointless."
- He pours a kind of witless corruption at the viewer and I can't think of another actor who could have done it with such a personal-seeming flavour.
- Given the natural course of events, most Americans will soon be scared ... 'witless' ... that this woman might eventually have her hand on the button.
- GREENFIELD: Yes, I think that kind of witless conversation that political -- some political folks indulge in every time the president speaks, what does he have to do?
- To see someone who is massively accomplished become someone massively disabled, not in some tragic accident, but because their own body and brain turned on them scares most people witless which is about the kindest thing I can say about them.
- Fox "News" has long been a fomenter of violent crime, encouraging the tin-foil hat crowd to embark on mercenary missions to take out liberals and other normal, thinking people in waves of violent crimes in churches, woman's health clinics, and pretty much anywhere they find them, and this was true of the so-called witless tea party protests of Obama's tax reform plan.
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