witless in English

adjective
1
foolish; stupid.
a witless retort
adjective

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1. Just a witless little girl

2. No, I lie, not frightened - just terrified witless.

3. Anencephalous; foolish; imbecile; senseless; silly; stupid; thoughtless; witless

4. A pestilence on the witless little dunce!

5. One day, this witless gentleman got a rather strange idea.

6. Thanks to the Brinston family of Witless Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador

7. But do let her go, Jacky, ' coaxed his poor witless wife.

8. Time was when the Richardson clan could scare this area witless.

9. I was scared witless the last time Tina drove me down to London.

10. And your witless behaviour is causing me more trouble in the end.

11. I have not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm.

12. Frank's sharpness shines through at times, but David's ad-libs rarely rise above witless rubbish.

13. Synonyms for Blockish include obtuse, stupid, dull, slow, dense, dim, thick, unintelligent, dumb and witless

14. Viewing things from one extreme perspective to another, anguish, jealous, witless were packed in between.

15. Most of us, frankly, are witless dupes to nature when the question is a baby.

16. And that might, in the future, be an awful lot of witless, wandering elderly.

17. The accident-prone Frank Spencer was just a step away from Runnicles, the witless bank clerk.

18. Watching an insipid and familiarly witless England side capitulate to Spain, those other European rank underachievers?

19. Synonyms for anencephalic include Anencephalous, stupid, foolish, witless, mindless, unintelligent, thick, dumb, half-witted and idiotic

20. While this scares companies witless, they also depend heavily on open intranets to generate and share critical knowledge.

21. 'But do let her go, Jacky, ' coaxed his poor witless wife. 'He's struck wi' - her you can see that.

22. Letter: Unfunny and witless schoolboy pranks Police now believe the gang were inexperienced Bunglers not hardened pros.

23. The synonyms of Anencephalous include are Dumb, Foolish, Imbecile, Mindless, Senseless, Silly, Stupid, Thoughtless, Witless and Anencephalic.

24. 30 The novel centres around a witless father who is continually being conned by his three children.

25. But he said the scientists "frightening people witless by following the party line" are motivated by politics and research funding.

26. For the past 15 years or so, graduates have emerged blinking into the white light of a witless and capricious boom time.

27. He and his writers railed against the "Booboisie," the term he coined to describe the uncultured and witless who ran the country

28. 70 min: Yearwood bustles down the middle and slips a pass wide right for Dasilva, who Blooters a witless effort deep into the stand

29. For the witless gutsiness of past policies, it should be noted that the current major opposition party, the Liberal Democratic party, is very much answerable.

30. The witless, end-of-history triumphalism that shaped western attitudes in the post-Cold War era is nowhere more misplaced than in regard to China.

31. Two hours dragged by, Old Daddy, witless with age, sat silent, his back bent like a bow and his inflamed eyes dripping slowly on to the floor.

32. Scared witless , Pian-pian is simply frozen in her dance pose like a statue, as she continues to stare stupidly at the two just-fallen guards with wide-open eyes.

33. When the fool commits evil deeds, he does not realize (their evil nature). The witless man is tormented by his own deeds, like one burnt by fire.

34. A shell took off his father's head, and the baby was just left in the arms of his father, and this child has subsequently become sort of witless.

35. The danger at this point is that a speaker will undo all the good wrought in his address by dragging in new or irrelevant material, or by indulging in a witless Anticlimax

36. Only a teenage girl could turn that revelation into a source of shame and embarrassment. Anna sauntered up to my lunch table where I sat, witless and surrounded by friends.

37. The human actors are in a witless sitcom part of the time, and lot of the rest of their time is spent running in slo-mo away from explosions, although--hello!--you can't outrun an explosion.

38. Best of the Best Sellers Marketers Are We Getting Dumb ( Dumb, Boeotian, zoologic, Anaudic, zoic, animalian, wordless, animalistic, witless, aphonic, wacky, asinine, vacuous)The book Marketers Are We Getting Dumb comes highly recommended and it's one you'll really enjoy.

39. We may safely extend the meaning of this word to the product of the witless: "Have you read the latest Anencephalous memo from headquarters, the one about saving electricity by not using electric pencil sharpeners?" Word History: This funny word is a Latinization of Greek anenkephalos, used by the great 2nd century Greek physician Galen