witless
Americanadjective
adjective
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- witlessly adverb
- witlessness noun
Etymology
Origin of witless
before 1000; Middle English; Old English witlēas. See wit 1, -less
Example Sentences
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Yet the subtext is less important than the surface: The movie is simply a witless bore.
Some descriptions of the “My Humps” cover from male critics: not funny, smug, witless, self-conscious, pop music cannibalism, dreadful and completely missing the point.
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I’m not talking about crazy uncles who ruin your Thanksgiving dinner; they’ve been crude and witless since the time you were a little kid who avoided them.
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His denouement arrives when he accidentally tells his audience over a hot mic that they’re a bunch of witless, contemptible rubes; they turn on him and his popularity evaporates.
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Reactionary centrism and false balance have created their own fantasyland: Rather than preserving and building on what’s best in our civic tradition, as their practitioners imagine, they’ve become witless handmaids in its ongoing destruction.
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