Example sentences for: witless

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

  • Having read David Brock's essay in the July Esquire , I am aware of his penchant for the witless smear.

  • The animal kingdom provided a rich source: Gallos (gallo cock or rooster) either sang well or had active sexual lives, Gazzas and Gazzanis (gazza magpie) and Malpighis ( male bad, piga a dialect word for magpie) made a habit of gossiping or collecting things, and many Calendris and Calandrinos ( calandra lark) were so named because people believed larks to be remarkably witless.

  • Forgetting that the original Dolittle was also panned, critics pine for "the good old days of children's movies" (Rod Dreher, the New York Post ). They lament the remake's addition of "a witless barrage of off-color bathroom humor" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ) and its use of sophisticated computer graphics to make cute animals engage in sexual innuendo.

  • Now the reviews of the exhibit are in, and although most critics defend the museum's right to exhibit what it wants, few defend the art : "Appallingly witless and stupid" (Hilton Kramer, the New York Observer ). Terry Teachout calls it "strictly adolescent stuff" that reveals that "British artists ...

  • He admits the pleasure of a good pun--not a false or missed pun, or a too obvious, witless pun, but one that activates a mental Leyden jar.


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