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

Too often courts witlessly apply the case law without thinking about what makes elections distinctive.

From Slate • Jun. 14, 2012

The exhorter, he reflected, having picked up the trail and opened the cry—trail which the headlong twins had so witlessly overrun—these older dogs were on it hot; trail of the Gilmores and "Harriet."

From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by Cable, George Washington