witlessness
Example Sentences
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Which is not to say cartoons must thrive on witlessness, as gifted artists ever since Picasso and Duchamp make plain.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2015
She was a sort of Bizarro World Oscar Wilde: an Irish author who became a London cause célèbre for the complete witlessness of her writing.
From Slate • Jan. 23, 2013
The Thick of It is in no danger of having its reputation challenged by such witlessness.
From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2012
The pathetic is achieved when the protagonist is, by virtue of his witlessness, his insensitivity or the very air he gives off, incapable of grappling with a much superior force.
From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2012
Perhaps, too, she had another reason for regretting her companion's witlessness.
From Archibald Malmaison by Hawthorne, Julian
