Sentence examples for as a witless from inspiring English sources

Among the lefty netroots, the president was variously portrayed as a witless dunce and a scheming Machiavelli deviously subverting the Constitution.

The younger Duvailier was a lonely manipulated figure, partly a prisoner of his past, having had power thrust on him as a witless youth of 19.

"But she also divides the critics like that other old-school oddball, Norman Wisdom, who was written off as a witless, irritating idiot with a penchant for falling over by some, and seen as a comic genius by others".

James Urbaniak as a witless duke who wants to usurp the throne turns the movements of a dancer and the eye of a mime into body language that makes every remark a tickling lie.

Commissioned by Playboy to produce a profile of the Olympic skier Jean-Claude Killy, he handed in a lengthy piece in which he suggested that, "on balance, it seems unfair to dismiss him as a witless greedhead, despite all the evidence".

The racket may come off as a trifle witless, but no less than some of the chants and missiles that emanate from the stands in Yankee Stadium during the postseason.

Ms. Subkoff's show was badly executed, with an exuberant tap dancer tapping too long and a group of male models looking as witless as marzipan bridegrooms.

In 1954, there was an hour-length TV adaptation with an American Bond (Barry Nelson) and the great Peter Lorre as the villain, while in 1967, there was a witless, non-canonical comic version of the novel.

On Sunday in the afterlife, both men, after decades in heaven, are expected to be reassigned to hell as a result of the premiere of "Jerseylicious," a witless reality show on the Style Network about a beauty salon in Green Brook, N.J., and the vapid people who work there.

Oh come on, you say: no leading politician would be as witless as to do that.

This left-wing brand of juvenile name-calling is as witless as the "Defeatocrats" and "cut and run" McCarthyism from the right; it at once undermined the serious charges against the data in the Petraeus progress report (including those charges in the same MoveOn ad) and allowed the war's cheerleaders to hyperventilate about a sideshow.