witless
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Harry Brook's dance, swipe and miss at Mitchell Starc from his first ball seemed witless in the moment, yet it was Brook's audacity that kept England from a complete implosion.
From BBC • Dec. 26, 2025
Yet the subtext is less important than the surface: The movie is simply a witless bore.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025
I’m not talking about crazy uncles who ruin your Thanksgiving dinner; they’ve been crude and witless since the time you were a little kid who avoided them.
From Salon • Oct. 20, 2024
What’s most troubling about this witless mishmash of whiny, infantile philosophizing and bone-crunching violence is the increasing realization that it actually thinks it’s saying something of significance.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2023
“Maybe they were higher. I don’t know. The weather was bad enough to scare me witless, that’s all I know for sure.”
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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