Sentence examples for witless attempts from inspiring English sources

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Lenders occasionally do get their wrists slapped – witness Cash Lady's witless attempts to use Kerry Katona's well-publicised financial problems to attract customers to its 2,760% APR loans; or Peachy Loans' "quirky" way of reading out its 1,918% interest rate ("nineteen eighteen").

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Look at the Republican Party's witless attempt to repackage itself with a new Barack Obama-like sound bite, only to find that "The Change You Deserve" was the ad slogan for an antidepressant.

Edwards allows them each a few words while repeatedly attempting witless jokes about the llfe-threateningly obese Hardy's girth.

Once the children are in their care, "Old Dogs" succumbs to acute attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder as it devolves into a series of crude, ill-prepared slapstick bits and witless sight gags in which Charlie and Dan's attempts to entertain the children are rebuffed with serial humiliations.

Thinking about how people get fooled on April 1 is a good way to prepare for the year-round attempts by swindlers to bamboozle the naïve, the witless and those who just aren't paying close attention.

The powerful sense of isolation a bewildered 21st century idiot attempts to stave off by bragging about his or her witless exploits on social networks, accompanying each boast with a modish hashtag.

The Interview took a reported $15m £9.8mm) in online sales in its first week, after alleged North Korean attempts to get it pulled from cinemas transformed it from a witless farce into an expression of free speech.

Witless sexual innuendo and witless violence.

"She was scared witless".

Wrong again, you witless wally.

This is not witless royalism.

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