Example Sentences

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Los Angeles is often caricatured as witlessly Edenic, “the City of Dreadful Joy,” in Aldous Huxley’s pointed phrase.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2022

It's April 1, and the Internet is a frazzled, hot mess of jokes, lies and hoaxes being witlessly shared by your friend's roommate's boyfriend.

From Newsweek • Apr. 1, 2015

Mr. Jackman suffers the most from Mr. Hooper’s approach, as when Valjean paces up and down a hallway while delivering “What Have I Done,” a to-and-fro that witlessly, needlessly, literalizes the character’s internal struggle.

From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2012

Too often courts witlessly apply the case law without thinking about what makes elections distinctive.

From Slate • Jun. 14, 2012

She approached, still staring half witlessly as if she saw an apparition.

From The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] by Footner, Hulbert