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Synonyms for witless


Grammar : Adj
Spell : wit-lis
Phonetic Transcription : ˈwɪt lɪs

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Définition of witless

Origin :
  • Old English witleas; see wit (n.) + -less. Phrase scared witless attested from 1975. Related: Witlessly; witlessness.
  • adj foolish
Example sentences :
  • And all this witless piffle because of a quite natural misunderstanding of mine.
  • Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • Capering creatures, who behaved witlessly, yet were far from witless.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 » by Various
  • The wife of the “odious person” was witless and fatuously conceited.
  • Extract from : « Chance » by Joseph Conrad
  • There was a witless vanity about my friend that sat on him almost like a virtue.
  • Extract from : « John Splendid » by Neil Munro
  • But do not give your witless vanity a foolish airing before my chaplain.
  • Extract from : « John Splendid » by Neil Munro
  • She began to be witless again, to wring her hands, to whimper and whine.
  • Extract from : « Little Novels of Italy » by Maurice Henry Hewlett
  • Would he take a wander-thought to his bed, and have witless children?
  • Extract from : « The Arrow-Maker » by Mary Austin
  • The man Lazarus is witless, he writes, of the relative value of all things.
  • Extract from : « Introduction to Robert Browning » by Hiram Corson
  • Impatience came to his voice; in truth, I must have been staring at him witless.
  • Extract from : « Tarrano the Conqueror » by Raymond King Cummings
  • I was hardly so witless as not to realize the truth of his admonition.
  • Extract from : « Tarrano the Conqueror » by Raymond King Cummings

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