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
In this way, the book is not really offensive so much as witlessly derivative, endlessly recapitulating the wisdom of other, canonical self-help and business books — by Stephen Covey, Simon Sinek, Shawn Achor, Adam Grant.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2017
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
Too often courts witlessly apply the case law without thinking about what makes elections distinctive.
From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2012
Jocularly and witlessly applied to an empty bottle, as being "useless;" but better rendered as having "done its duty, and ready to do it again."
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
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