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  • adverb In a gormless manner.

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Examples

  • UPDATE - "... this gruesome gargoyle gaping gormlessly from the Gurdwara of Ghastliness, this crapulent corbel on the Cathedral of Cretinism, this seething sore stickily suppurating on the Stone Circle of Stupidity, this moronic, mindless minaret on the Mosque of Madness etc etc ..."

    Archive 2004-10-31 Laban 2004

  • UPDATE - "... this gruesome gargoyle gaping gormlessly from the Gurdwara of Ghastliness, this crapulent corbel on the Cathedral of Cretinism, this seething sore stickily suppurating on the Stone Circle of Stupidity, this moronic, mindless minaret on the Mosque of Madness etc etc ..."

    October 31, 2004 Laban 2004

  • It is my first time here, traveling as one among a group of artists and entertainment industry folks, attempting to learn through experience rather than through anecdote, and get a taste for ourselves of the place which has been, for the entirety of my 50 years of skipping gormlessly through life, the source of controversy and hope.

    Steven Weber: In a Sense, Abroad Part Trois: I's Real, Oy! Steven Weber 2011

  • It is my first time here, traveling as one among a group of artists and entertainment industry folks, attempting to learn through experience rather than through anecdote, and get a taste for ourselves of the place which has been, for the entirety of my 50 years of skipping gormlessly through life, the source of controversy and hope.

    Steven Weber: In a Sense, Abroad Part Trois: I's Real, Oy! Steven Weber 2011

  • But it certainly demonstrates conclusively that a generation has turned in the film industry; that the kind of kids gormlessly hoovering down TV three decades ago are now in charge of things.

    The A-Team 2010

  • Ah yes, gawping gormlessly over a literary conversation and loving every minute, so I was delighted when Pamela Norris offered to send me a copy of the book she had talked about at that weekend and then to discover that I was part of the audience mentioned in the acknowledgements.

    51 entries from August 2007 2007

  • This is interesting, I will watch gormlessly now for a while.

    diplomacy – everyone listens to a man with an axe – but you might have to swing it around a bit first | My[confined]Space 2009

  • Apparently out of nowhere the volume would rise up and up, and Id find myself pathetically flailing, standing in a corner unable to do anything usefullike when your cars broken down and your mate whos a mechanic is under the bonnet fixing things while you stand gormlessly behind him.

    What's Going On Mark Steel 2009

  • Ah yes, gawping gormlessly over a literary conversation and loving every minute, so I was delighted when Pamela Norris offered to send me a copy of the book she had talked about at that weekend and then to discover that I was part of the audience mentioned in the acknowledgements.

    Words of Love 2007

  • Ah yes, gawping gormlessly over a literary conversation and loving every minute, so I was delighted when Pamela Norris offered to send me a copy of the book she had talked about at that weekend and then to discover that I was part of the audience mentioned in the acknowledgements.

    Words of Love 2007

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