witlessness
Example Sentences
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Twin Peaks cop Andy and his daffy receptionist wife Lucy are cases in point; their witlessness is played for laughs but simultaneously curdles into something unsettling, as if they were robots trying to play humans.
From The Guardian • Jun. 5, 2017
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
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
