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witlessly

/wit-lis/US // ˈwɪt lɪs //UK // (ˈwɪtlɪs) //

无意中,漫不经心地,无奈地,漫不经心

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : lacking wit or intelligence; stupid; foolish.

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Examples

  • At its most pejorative, the term describes a uniquely disposable kind of young gay man: Hairless, guileless, witless.

  • Because these questions are never addressed, the characters seem witless, flat, and mean.

  • Sorry, but the endless apologies from hapless celebrities and witless pundits add up to a big zero.

  • The Norns' decree thou wilt hold in contempt as from a witless wight: In water thou shalt be drowned, if in wind thou rowest.

  • Dost thou deem me so witless as not to know that if she had sent thee hither thou wouldst not have come in this plight?

  • But sure, we might have writ a letter about ye an' carried it out to Witless Bay.

  • Any little accident might do it if they knew that he was on his way to Witless Bay.

  • From the witless, nameless unit of a whaler's crew he had at last arisen to a fresh identity.