Example sentences for: clueless

How can you use “clueless” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Peter Fonda, who plays the Prospero equivalent, is called "stone-faced and clueless" (Steve Parks, Newsday ). ( Read this interview with Fonda.)

  • The genre revived in 1995 with Clueless , which was based on Jane Austen's Emma . Cruel Intentions is the zillionth adaptation of the 18 th century French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses . She's All That is loosely based on Pretty Woman , which was loosely based on My Fair Lady , which was based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion . Arriving at multiplexes in the next few months will be O , a version of Othello set against a backdrop of high-school sports, and 10 Things I Hate About You , an adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew .

  • An article observes "coolhunters," the hipster consultants who are hired by clueless clothing and shoe manufacturers to find the next big thing.

  • To test the principle of which the endearingly clueless Wheeler's story is an extreme example, the study's authors, Justin Kruger and David Dunning of Cornell, took a bunch of Cornell students and had them perform four tasks and then estimate how well they'd done at each.

  • They'd know him as the dotty character actor from mass-appeal films like The Princess Bride and Clueless --a guy who, unlike the earnest playwright Shawn, appears to have stopped taking anything in life seriously, least of all himself.


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