witlessness

Example Sentences

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The hallmark of this “Joker” is its solemn witlessness.

From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2019

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

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

That his landing had been opposed, was, they declared, no fault of theirs; it was all the witlessness of their ignorant followers, who had insisted on fighting.

From Early Britain—Roman Britain by Conybeare, Edward