Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being witless; want of judgment, understanding, or consideration.
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- noun The state of being
witless ;stupidity
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Examples
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The whole enterprise, like so much else on Bravo, the “affluencer” network, feels like a moldy leftover from the pre-Obama age; the currently fashionable values — humility, intelligence, restraint, style — are eclipsed by money-grubbing witlessness and big-carbon-footprint living.
Real Housewives Make Me Question My Morality | clusterflock 2009
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Kearney's piece is cited by name, but Politico carefully omits Kearney's central premise -- the essential witlessness of the rally critics -- in order to pretend that they form some sort of important cultural vanguard.
Politico Has Concerns About Rally To Restore Sanity For Some Reason Jason Linkins 2010
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They reflect a very confident belief in their own intellectual superiority and a disdain bordering on disgust for the witlessness of those of us who experience God.
Eliot Daley: Welcome, Atheists. But, Really, Why Are You Here? Eliot Daley 2011
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Barrett is pandering to the “There oughta be a law” school of witlessness.
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Kearney's piece is cited by name, but Politico carefully omits Kearney's central premise -- the essential witlessness of the rally critics -- in order to pretend that they form some sort of important cultural vanguard.
Politico Has Concerns About Rally To Restore Sanity For Some Reason Jason Linkins 2010
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Kearney's piece is cited by name, but Politico carefully omits Kearney's central premise -- the essential witlessness of the rally critics -- in order to pretend that they form some sort of important cultural vanguard.
Politico Has Concerns About Rally To Restore Sanity For Some Reason The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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If only there were a similar easy fix for Seth MacFarlane's Family Guyspinoff TheCleveland Show, a toxic combination of witlessness and racial insensitivity.
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They reflect a very confident belief in their own intellectual superiority and a disdain bordering on disgust for the witlessness of those of us who experience God.
Eliot Daley: Welcome, Atheists. But, Really, Why Are You Here? Eliot Daley 2011
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Staircase witlessness struck: All I meant to imply by that is that Huberto is a handsome and photogenic beast, of whom photographs should always be judged mandatory and never "gratuitous"!
"No one understands, the way you found your god..." greygirlbeast 2010
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This is just an empty summer hodgepodge of stale romantic comedy exchanges, witlessness and lackluster action.
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