How To Use Gormless In A Sentence
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More often than not he appears to be a gormless, callow youth blundering around the park, as much laughed at as berated, even by his own supporters.
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Of course when our hero arrives at the abandoned post-office, waiting for him will be an old man and a gormless boy.
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And to top it all off, we end up with a gormless and ridiculous gaze into the sunset.
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They negotiated their gold ransom for the kidnapped Freia with all the dogged, gormless determination of a ticket collector extracting an excess fare.
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Passive, gormless, fearful, image-conscious, tepid, golf-happy and too willing to wilt under the pressure of Larry Summers, Joe Lieberman, and Dick Cheney.
Matthew Yglesias » Presidential Overpromising
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Vent your rage at the gormless fools we have stupidly elected.
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On the downside, Frederick and I agreed that the food was lousy and the staff were generally gormless, but the quality of the attractions is adequate compensation.
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Her life ruined by gormless yobbery. on April 15, 2010 at 8: 24 pm Agent Zig Zag
Crime And Immigration In Britain SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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They negotiated their gold ransom for the kidnapped girl with all the dogged, gormless determination of a ticket collector extracting an excess fare.
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He looked so gormless though, with that big brown mark on his face.
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What that animal is no one knows, but it has been in the reactionary bestiary so long that none dare call it gormless.
About 'Capote'
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Ever. doesn't even begin to summarise the past eight years, enough rope, though "gormless" comes close
Kiwiblog
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Best known in the UK for his role as Phoebe's gormless younger brother, he has been acting since he was 10.
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But in one sentence he has, sadly, exposed himself as being a bit gormless at keeping women sweet.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her life ruined by gormless yobbery. on April 15, 2010 at 8: 24 pm Agent Zig Zag
Crime And Immigration In Britain SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Lee is full of adolescent pride - gawky, gormless and increasingly angry.
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Apparently he looked up the word "gormless" in the dictionary and it said "without gorm".
Archive 2005-07-01
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I can't bear the gormless chatter of the news presenters at any time.
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Taking Genesis as a literal truth is a working definition of "gormless".
Blah, Blah! Technology
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Shawn, the bridegroom, is played as a gormless buffoon; the real comedy of the earnest, strait-laced coward goes for nothing.
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Future political analysts will wonder how this cold, charmless, gormless man ever became the nominee of a major party.
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Well, they're lazy, adolescent, and a bit gormless.
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That is what is termed a rodomontade of equal foolishness to Gormless Gordon's 'decade of shared prosperity'.
British Blogs
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Although there are practical concerns regarding Europe's declining fertility rate, there are bigger concerns that useless people will only raise gormless children.
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The report prattles on gormlessly: ‘We cannot build our way out of the problems we face on our road networks.’
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Perhaps that's the legacy of being the frontman, spending your early teens grinning good-naturedly on gormless kids' TV shows and in gormless pop magazines.
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Whenever the ball is up at the other end of the pitch, you should consolidate this position by standing stock still and staring into space, with a vacant, slightly gormless expression.
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Premier League win against Arsenal in aeons and an astonishing demolition job on Chelsea later and those of us who confidently predicted Tottenham's end-of-season collapse have been left picking eggshell, albumen and vitellus from our gormless, slack-jawed faces.
The Guardian World News
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We all know that if you look up "gormless" in the dictionary, it actually says "Eugene, from Big Brother". posted by Kerron @ 8:28 PM
Archive 2005-07-01
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It makes a pleasant change to be able to find a parking space with reasonable ease and to see all the way from one end of the supermarket to the other without my view being blocked by gormless people looking for bargains.
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He was gormless, spoke in a funny nasal accent and looked as if he could do with a kick up the backside.
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Shawn, the bridegroom, is played as a gormless buffoon; the real comedy of the earnest, strait-laced coward goes for nothing.
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We just hope he's got it right, since it is abundantly obvious that this gormless trio will just go on doing as they are told even if to the eye of a professional builder, it is patently stupid.
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After all, MacGowan's memoir confirms that, far from a gormless thug, this guy is witty, intelligent… perhaps even a genius.
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But both involved the man in question actually exposing himself to some small amount of danger, even if we, the gormless public, thought it was vastly more.
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To academic historians they were ‘mere entertainment’ - just mindless pap for gormless morons.
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None of it now seems especially secret or illegible, but in the forty years that have elapsed I suppose the rest of us have become much less gormless, and better at processing oceans of sensory bombardment.
Psychedelic Denver
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He comes unstuck at the curtain call, where his lack of training shows in a grinning, gormless bow from the waist.
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Does having a scatty heroine, rather than a gormless hero, on the case affect the parody?
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Or, as the peer described them: "David Cameron and the bloody tieless and gormless lot.
I admire Nick Clegg more than David Cameron, says Norman Tebbit
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The descriptive definitions are well done (though the entries be rare), and if you are searching for another way to refer to the people whom you have traditionally characterized as gormless ninnyhammers and attocerebral twits, perhaps this book is the solution.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 1
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I didn't vote for this spineless, gormless, joyless, clueless Government.
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He looked around in annoyance at being brought back to reality; a plump, gormless looking boy stood in the doorway.
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When will David Cameron wise up to the BBC? he should have known better than to allow "gormless" Andrew Lansley to give the BBC such propaganda.
CO-ORDINATED SCAREMONGERING
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The mothy, gormless, indistinct sunrise of salvation world-the Other Land-I couldn't get it, I couldn't focus.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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One cannot shake the feeling that "gormless" and "Stelmach" are two words that will soon fit together as naturally in the journalistic lexicon as, say, "shark infested" and "waters" or
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