Sentence examples for witless in from inspiring English sources

We enjoyed scaring ourselves witless in the wilderness, where there were, in fact, many bears.

Disappointingly, Kay will not be playing the "wardrobe monster" that scared a little girl witless in one of his ads for John Smiths bitter.

In the diaries, Tynan's misogyny, sadism and horny preoccupations warp his sensibility and render him witless in a way only a clever man who fancies himself a studied charmer can be.

Over the past week and a half they have gorged themselves on too many good films, broiled themselves witless in too many queues and talked themselves hoarse in too many post-screening discussions.

In Margaret Drabble's A Summer Birdcage, a character gets married wearing a dirty bra, a proceeding that shocked young female readers of the day (1963) witless, in a way that novelistic divorce, sex before marriage and affairs never could.

In between, Atwood's interwoven, partly autobiographical short stories move slowly from youth to death: in one, a young girl organises her mother, worries about appearances and scares her sister witless; in another, a young woman drifts into the arms of a vaguely unsuitable man; in a third, a father tells his daughter stories about a wilderness trip that went wrong.

Its occasional mumbling about First Amendment rights seems more afterthought than agenda in this clumsy re-enactment of the film's production, release and subsequent obscenity trials, which unfolds like a witless "Laugh-In" sketch.

Until then, Perry had seemed glum and witless, especially in debates, heartbroken by his inability to answer a simple question with a coherent reply.

Clearly, parliamentarians who see public office as an opportunity to better the accommodation of their ducks have done more to deserve hostility than either late weapons experts or witless twentysomethings in a TV house.

The two ugliest, most witless words in the English language are 'chocaholic' and 'shopaholic', and similarly I can't bear the notion that men are somehow immune to romantic impulses, concerned only with escaping down the pub to watch football with their mates.

Behind Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin's witless comments in the service of the anti-abortion movement is the idea that some women might claim rape just to obtain an abortion.