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
In them he declared what he called “a protective interest in the English language,” which, he warned, was falling prey to windiness, witlessness, ungrammaticality, obfuscation and other depredations.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2010
Perhaps, too, she had another reason for regretting her companion's witlessness.
From Archibald Malmaison by Julian Hawthorne
