But it also has the capacity to scare some people witless. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
What kind of witless fools trade the lives of others just to say I told you so?. From Wordnik.com. [Dodd: Obama, Clinton ticket not likely] Reference
Before you welcome the show in, you should be warned that our theater critic found it "witless" and "pointless.". From Wordnik.com. [Critic's Corner Weekend] Reference
GREENFIELD: Yes, I think that kind of witless conversation that political -- some political folks indulge in every time the president speaks, what does he have to do?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 20, 2001] Reference
‘Madness! clean witless is he!’. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
« Speaking of "witless," I give you the virtuous William J. Bennett. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference
'Oh, sir! she is but a poor, sick, witless animal.'. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
Both old maids and young ones, the witless and wise. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetry of Wales] Reference
Though you are worthless, witless, -- never mind it. From Wordnik.com. [Sanders' Union Fourth Reader] Reference
The statistics are terrifying and we should be scared witless. From Wordnik.com. [Christina Pirello: Want to Stand Up to Cancer? Prevent It] Reference
There was a wailing cry from the north, a howl of witless fear. From Wordnik.com. [Voodoo Planet] Reference
You see, he was not altogether witless, if he was a-- Fessenden's. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference
I was so pleased at the mimicry, that I gave way to witless laughter. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
There was a witless vanity about my friend that sat on him almost like. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
She began to be witless again, to wring her hands, to whimper and whine. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
They are in row 90 or something, as far back as it will go, scared witless. From Wordnik.com. [MARTIAL LAW - LOCK DOWN IN PARADISE] Reference
Conservatives won all sorts of witless, showboat "tough" sentencing provisions. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Kennedy's Last Campaign] Reference
International organized crime is frightening some sensible policymakers witless. From Wordnik.com. [Global Mafia] Reference
The Galilean is not witless, but hath both wit and wisdom and speaketh with authority. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
Russia has scared its neighboring states witless, driving them firmly into the arms of the West. From Wordnik.com. [This Isn’t the Return of History] Reference
The witless scripting is matched by the dialogue, and the title Knight and Day is feeble joking. From Wordnik.com. [Knight and Day] Reference
And the pupil was not Isidro, but the witless old man who was one of the many sharers of the abode. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
It has fueled extremism in both parties, a witless populism that leads politicians away from consensus. From Wordnik.com. [Learning To Love Dole] Reference
An Englishman, in the witless way in which Saxons do address Irishmen, asked a labourer by the wayside. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
According to the "Chicago Tribune" reporter who broke the story, these witnesses are anything but witless. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 5, 2007] Reference
'Then indeed we press on to ask and inquire the cause, witless of wickedness so great and Pelasgian craft. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
In fact, three witless germs traveling in a cabin in an iron filing wasn't a bad description of us at all. From Wordnik.com. [The Night of the Long Knives] Reference
Careless or witless molders, by laying candles still soft upon the pile, often made themselves double work. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
I was forced to share the house with other creatures, some witless and cruel, one cunning, one incomprehensible. From Wordnik.com. [Creatures: A Memoir] Reference
BENNETT: Well again, I think the policy is feckless, pusillanimous, it's gutless, but it's also witless, I think. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 21, 2009] Reference
It never happened that a woman did aught so witless as to beg a man for love unless she were more than common mad. From Wordnik.com. [Cligés. English] Reference
It was greater than the tragedy of her poor, witless son, the hatred of old Mrs. Brenner, and her ever-present fear of Mart. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
What is hard for most people is to see forgiveness as a path to strength instead of unnecessarily and witless vulnerability. From Wordnik.com. [Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: The Trauma of Betrayal and Verbal First Aid] Reference
But when he endeavored to call the weapons of his office to his aid, her glance and the shadow of that smile left him witless. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
"Amber Frey," witless for the prosecution -- I mean, "Witness for the Prosecution" is the name of the thing they're going to show. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 21, 2005] Reference
Wass had come out of the valley a witless, dazed creature, still under the mental influence of whoever, or whatever, had set that trap. From Wordnik.com. [Star Hunter] Reference
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