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Definition of "witless" []

  • Lacking intelligence or wit; foolish. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "witless" in a sentence
  • "His lips trembled briefly, but otherwise, his face never let go of his expression of witless warmth."
  • "Fox "News" has long been a fomenter of violent crime, encouraging the tin-foil hat crowd to embark on mercenary missions to take out liberals and other normal, thinking people in waves of violent crimes in churches, woman's health clinics, and pretty much anywhere they find them, and this was true of the so-called witless tea party protests of Obama's tax reform plan."
  • "I thought it said that Bachmann and Coulter were both called "witless.""