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witless
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  • I walked as far as the cemetery: one needs a goal for these otherwise witless excursions.†  (source)
  • "Which makes you pretty skint, witless," said a cackling voice.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • "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.
  • A last few spiders crawled witlessly around the smoking bodies of their fellows, and she burned them one by one with the flashlight.†  (source)
  • Christ, days went by and the hole in the paper was small, the light was dim, the overheard conversations witless.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • For the first time in my life, which had for years been sometimes witlessly gregarious, I discovered the pain of unwanted solitude.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • "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)
  • 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)
  • He saw a witless coloredwoman jailed and hanged for stealing ducks she believed were her own babies.†  (source)
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