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as in stupid
not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily
a dog so witless that it is barely trainable
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as in foolish
showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment
a witless decision to relocate to the other side of the country without even the prospect of a job
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Recent Examples of witless
By most accounts, Trump’s ground game—powered by the witless Musk—was a bit of a mess, but Harris’s professional field operation seems to have been helpless to stem the tide of Trump’s support.
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The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2024
But apparently, California just couldn’t abide this challenge to its primacy as the most witless state in the union.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 23 Sep. 2024
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) To borrow Jeff Bridges’s description of the magazine that Simon Pegg’s character once ran, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People is witless.
—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024
Police believed the perpetrators were the yakuza, who were irked by Itami’s portrayal of them as witless bullies outsmarted by a cunning attorney (played by Itami’s actress wife Nobuko Miyamoto, who starred in all of his films) in Minbo.
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 22 Dec. 2023
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Friendships built on insecurity, where men constantly have to prove their manhood, are a breeding ground for toxic attitudes and stupid decision-making.—
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That was the result of a stupid Obama-era rule that claimed a benefit to climate change (the biggest scam ever perpetrated on humanity) by restricting water flow through shower heads and faucets.—
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While tailback isn’t a need, only foolish franchises pass up adding generational talents such as Jeanty.—
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Evening rush-hour commuters — who thought winter was over — felt foolish after the city was socked with a record-breaking spring snowfall.—
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Ratajkowski has been fighting the stereotype of the dumb model from the beginning of her career.—
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Ninety nine percent of all NFL players are explicitly not dumb.—
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This strategy worked for him for about 10 years—and then began to bore him silly.—
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Believing in any conspiracy theory, even one that seems as inoffensive or silly as the flat Earth theory, can set a person up to fall into larger conspiracy theories, Dashtgard says, like the idea that feminism is a global conspiracy meant to drag men down.—
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Samsung is neck and neck with Google, but its updates are often slower and more limited on older phones.—
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The slowest builder finished before the one who overslept.—
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Quarterly reports delayed by years would be absurd.—
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While that isn't anywhere close to of being traded 10 times, being traded in four straight seasons is quite absurd.—
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The simplest way, Studholme suggests, is to use one group of neutrals or a tone on tone graduation of the same color, such as Pigeon, Blue Gray, Muzzle and Cromarty from Farrow & Ball, for example.—
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Asked who’d buy these gold cards during an Oval Office meeting with reporters in February, Trump had a simple answer.—
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Anyone who is mad about that needs to look at life from a higher perspective.—
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Biggest of thanks to Sana, Brad, Kevin, Lou, Aaron, Justin, Charlie, Vincent, Deb, Jon and the whole mad circus.—
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“Witless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/witless. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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