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Significados de witless em inglês

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

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Lacking in intelligence.

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Examples for "dull"
Examples for "dull"
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Yet, the faint cries for help plus some dull thumping noises continue.
The Irish Times
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And in one as in the other the finer susceptibilities grow dull.
From One Generation to Another
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As so often with the environment, it's the dull things that work.
The Guardian
4
You sit dull in the market all day; you want a feast.
Bébée; Or, Two Little Wooden Shoes
5
Europe's belief in a dull but safe civilisation is its main attraction.
The Guardian
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He looked silly enough in truth; but he never bothered about it.
Jean-Christophe, Volume I
2
I was silly to be mixed up with it in the beginning.
The Youngest Girl in the Fifth: A School Story
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Lay aside affected, silly etiquette for the natural dictates of the heart.
Searchlights on Health: The Science of Eugenics
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They were just silly, ordinary fussinesses; they had no sense in them.
The Old Wives' Tale
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The idea of yonder silly creature being the companion of a MAN.
A Face Illumined
Uso de witless em inglês
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Fallion and Jaz had given a wild account, nearly witless with terror.
Sons of the Oak
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Bores stopped him on the street to repeat ancient and witless stories.
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume I, Part 2: 1866-1875
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Don't talk to me like I'm some sort of witless farm girl.
The Wise Man’s Fear
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To his unaccustomed mind their quarry was almost witless and exceedingly dirty.
The Window-Gazer
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Tanis made a lunge for her, nearly scaring the gully dwarf witless.
Dragons of autumn twilight
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People actually want to be scared witless of her, so she obliges.
The Guardian
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It wouldn't take one of those to scare me witless, she thought.
In the Dark
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Majestically as he bowled, he was aided by some pretty witless batsmanship.
The Guardian
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This reverend prelate, whom he had deemed so wise, was well-nigh witless.
The White Ladies of Worcester: A Romance of the Twelfth Century
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They sent Sterling Hopkins, a vainglorious, witless, overzealous wight, to rearrest Maloney.
Port O' Gold / A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts
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Henry had to walk between them and the prospect scared him witless.
Faerie Wars
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Such power was black and witless and should be locked away forever.
The First King of Shannara
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Slow and dumb and witless, even one supposedly as bright as Laie.
The Irda (Children of the Stars)
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You see, he thinks I'm dumb and witless like his other horses.
The horse and his boy
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Fetches, wraiths, scantlings: They were always good for scaring children and witless men.
A Cavern of Black Ice
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I am bored witless!' For her, that means planning a trip to Turkey.
Reuters
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