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

At another time, a miller laughing at him for his witlessness, he said, "Some things I ken, and some I dinna ken."

From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Ramsay, Edward Bannerman