witless
adjective
lacking wit or intelligence; stupid; foolish.
witlessly
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a word derived from
witless.
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
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
The boys, presumably just as far gone, stood around grinning witlessly.
From Newsweek ● Jul. 30, 2012
Too often courts witlessly apply the case law without thinking about what makes elections distinctive.
From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2012
As fares the soul that threads the gloom Toward an unseen goal of doom, Thou farest forth all witlessly, To lose thyself and find the sea.
From The Poems of William Watson by William Watson
