witlessly
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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
It's April 1, and the Internet is a frazzled, hot mess of jokes, lies and hoaxes being witlessly shared by your friend's roommate's boyfriend.
From Newsweek ● Apr. 1, 2015
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
Too often courts witlessly apply the case law without thinking about what makes elections distinctive.
From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2012
But should you witlessly happen to have attracted the companionship of ever so innocent a fly, the awful presence seizes it on the wing and is away with the twang of a bullet.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
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