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Meanings of soft-witted in English

(Of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment.

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        Examples for "senseless"
        1
        Ask her a sensible question and you're now guaranteed a senseless answer.
        The Guardian
        2
        Governor Mark Dayton said in a statement: I deplore this senseless violence.
        Reuters
        3
        I thought this encapsulated the intense pain that such senseless violence causes.
        The Guardian
        4
        Cadorna's judgement on the assaults on Mrzli was succinct: 'heroic but senseless'.
        The white war: life and death on the italian front 1915-1919
        5
        Grettir kicked two of them in the ears and they fell senseless.
        The Saga of Grettir the Strong: Grettir's Saga
        1
        Fallion and Jaz had given a wild account, nearly witless with terror.
        Sons of the Oak
        2
        Bores stopped him on the street to repeat ancient and witless stories.
        Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume I, Part 2: 1866-1875
        3
        Don't talk to me like I'm some sort of witless farm girl.
        The Wise Man’s Fear
        4
        To his unaccustomed mind their quarry was almost witless and exceedingly dirty.
        The Window-Gazer
        5
        Tanis made a lunge for her, nearly scaring the gully dwarf witless.
        Dragons of autumn twilight
        Usage of soft-witted in English
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        Not that he was soft-witted; far from it.
        Margery (Gred): A Tale Of Old Nuremberg — Volume 01
        Soft-witted through the time