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witless
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    Guarded by an Angel mild Witless woe, was ne'er beguil'd!†  (source)
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    "Which makes you pretty skint, witless," said a cackling voice.†  (source)
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    He saw a witless coloredwoman jailed and hanged for stealing ducks she believed were her own babies.†  (source)
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    Both times I was scared so witless that the guards had to carry me along by the arms.†  (source)
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    A last few spiders crawled witlessly around the smoking bodies of their fellows, and she burned them one by one with the flashlight.†  (source)
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    "I had no idea," said Isabel presently; and looked up at her in a manner that doubtless matched the apparent witlessness of this confession.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    "Your Grace, the poor child is shocked witless," murmured Ser Dontos.†  (source)
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    For the first time in my life, which had for years been sometimes witlessly gregarious, I discovered the pain of unwanted solitude.†  (source)
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    Come, answer this, didst thou detect in me Some touch of cowardice or witlessness, That made thee undertake this enterprise?†  (source)
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    Linnie's witless face and her dropped jaw.†  (source)
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    They laughed, as if to urge her by their shock to go on, and the American girl witlessly murmured, "No, I have a letter to write."†  (source)
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    YOU WITLESS IDIOT!†  (source)
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    From a vague sense of his own image, not clear to him yet, but there, final, however unrealized inside his head: a shadowy higher ground toward which, instinctively, he must go on witlessly fleeing.†  (source)
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