witlessly
Example Sentences
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Los Angeles is often caricatured as witlessly Edenic, “the City of Dreadful Joy,” in Aldous Huxley’s pointed phrase.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2022
Mr. Jackman suffers the most from Mr. Hooper’s approach, as when Valjean paces up and down a hallway while delivering “What Have I Done,” a to-and-fro that witlessly, needlessly, literalizes the character’s internal struggle.
From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2012
The boys, presumably just as far gone, stood around grinning witlessly.
From Newsweek ● Jul. 30, 2012
Yet numerous critics witlessly observed that Willy’s resentful, destructive behavior isn’t “attractive”.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2011
He opened his lips to speak, and thinking better of it, or else not thinking at all in his astonishment, gaped witlessly, wholly incapable of conceiving what had got into the girl.
From Joan Thursday by Louis Joseph Vance
