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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

As fares the soul that threads the gloom Toward an unseen goal of doom, Thou farest forth all witlessly, To lose thyself and find the sea.

From The Poems of William Watson by Watson, William




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