witlessin a sentence
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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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Stop giving yourself airs, you witless servant boy! (source)witless = foolish
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They look witless and dull, which lulls their enemies, but they are clever.† (source)
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I walked as far as the cemetery: one needs a goal for these otherwise witless excursions.† (source)
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"Which makes you pretty skint, witless," said a cackling voice.† (source)
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The weather was bad enough to scare me witless, that's all I know for sure.† (source)
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They were yammering away in some language Yetta didn't recognize, or maybe it wasn't a language at all, just witless jabbering.† (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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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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Christ, days went by and the hole in the paper was small, the light was dim, the overheard conversations witless.† (source)
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So they spake, and turning out of the path they lay down among the bodies of the dead; and swiftly Dolon ran past them in his witlessness.† (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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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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"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)
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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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He saw a witless coloredwoman jailed and hanged for stealing ducks she believed were her own babies.† (source)
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