witlessness

Example Sentences

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But the rest of us are under no obligation to smile weakly at such witlessness.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2017

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

In them he declared what he called “a protective interest in the English language,” which, he warned, was falling prey to windiness, witlessness, ungrammaticality, obfuscation and other depredations.

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2010

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

But so far neither avarice nor witlessness has betrayed anything.

From The Unveiling of Lhasa by Candler, Edmund