(Of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment.
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Examples for "dull "
Examples for "dull "
1 Yet, the faint cries for help plus some dull thumping noises continue.
2 And in one as in the other the finer susceptibilities grow dull .
3 As so often with the environment, it's the dull things that work.
4 You sit dull in the market all day; you want a feast.
5 Europe's belief in a dull but safe civilisation is its main attraction.
1 He looked silly enough in truth; but he never bothered about it.
2 I was silly to be mixed up with it in the beginning.
3 Lay aside affected, silly etiquette for the natural dictates of the heart.
4 They were just silly , ordinary fussinesses; they had no sense in them.
5 The idea of yonder silly creature being the companion of a MAN.
1 Fallion and Jaz had given a wild account, nearly witless with terror.
2 Bores stopped him on the street to repeat ancient and witless stories.
3 Don't talk to me like I'm some sort of witless farm girl.
4 To his unaccustomed mind their quarry was almost witless and exceedingly dirty.
5 Tanis made a lunge for her, nearly scaring the gully dwarf witless .
6 People actually want to be scared witless of her, so she obliges.
7 It wouldn't take one of those to scare me witless , she thought.
8 Majestically as he bowled, he was aided by some pretty witless batsmanship.
9 This reverend prelate, whom he had deemed so wise, was well-nigh witless .
10 They sent Sterling Hopkins, a vainglorious, witless , overzealous wight, to rearrest Maloney.
11 Henry had to walk between them and the prospect scared him witless .
12 Such power was black and witless and should be locked away forever.
13 Slow and dumb and witless , even one supposedly as bright as Laie.
14 You see, he thinks I'm dumb and witless like his other horses.
15 Fetches, wraiths, scantlings: They were always good for scaring children and witless men.
16 I am bored witless ! ' For her, that means planning a trip to Turkey.
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