Sentence examples for a witless from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a witless" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who lacks intelligence or is foolish, often in a humorous or derogatory context.
Example: "He made a witless remark that left everyone in the room speechless."
Alternatives: "a foolish" or "a dull-witted".

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His wife's lover is a witless coward.

Britain is bent on a witless policy of de-globalization.

A witless hero almost invariably promises a story without much love, sex or success.

Less successful was Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942), a witless comedy-drama-romance.

Some were vitriolic: Michael Ratcliffe in the Observer dubbed the show "a witless and synthetic entertainment".

Ian Lavender's callow Private Pike makes a witless but insolent remark from across the room.

Here, I was nothing but a witless, dumb, low-class foreigner.

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A victory for a lazy, witless song from an artist who should know better would be a loss for country music.

"Dolly"' gets a whole witless line; Sondheim fares better, just a bit.

Still, it's pretty good I would say - as with a lot of his latter-day fare, a little witless, but nicely orchestrated and full of very Moz lines about prostitutes, boxes of pine, and - I kid you not – a "vicious street gang".

Perhaps the world is simply not yet ready for him, still content to listen to the inane post-50s ditties produced by his more successful friends Jim and Jean (played by an amusingly witless Justin Timberlake and a catty Carey Mulligan).

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