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

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

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

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 Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)