Sample Sentences forwitless (auto-selected)
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Stop giving yourself airs, you witless servant boy! (source)witless = foolish
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He was witless and wandering, and had forgotten almost everything except the map and the key. (source)witless = confused or disoriented
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Guarded by an Angel mild Witless woe, was ne'er beguil'd!† (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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Linnie's witless face and her dropped jaw.† (source)
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YOU WITLESS IDIOT!† (source)
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The idea of going up against an evil force powerful enough to kidnap Hera scared him witless, especially since he didn't even know his own past.† (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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Surely, if we have learned nothing else, this war has taught us pity—pity for those witless souls that suffer our dominion.† (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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It's a witless form of flight with bodies packed in close and the gate-crashing becoming real.† (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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"Your Grace, the poor child is shocked witless," murmured Ser Dontos.† (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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