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 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
And Levy, whose The Pink Panther and Night at the Museum took mediocre hackwork to new levels of witlessness, isn't the man to change that.
From The Guardian • Apr. 26, 2010
He was impatient of ordinary human witlessness, and spoke to his fellows, not as man to man, but as Apollo from his seat.
From The Art of Letters by Lynd, Robert
