ADJECTIVE
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(used as complement) to the utmost degree
he was scared witless
the students were bored shitless
How To Use shitless In A Sentence
- Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town. The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)
- There are some really funny Buddhist stories like the one about the zen master being scared shitless being driven in a car along hair-raising roads … but being present with his scared shitlessness. Suffering and Enlightenment « Tales from the Reading Room
- He was also scared shitless -- he was facing up to 30 years in prison. Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega: The "Texas Two": How Did Two All-American Boys From Midland Texas Wind Up Charged with Domestic Terrorism?
- I was seven -- and hipless -- the first time, scared shitless and moving to an island where the sun never shines. Gemma de Choisy: Confessions of a Dual Citizen
- What scared me witless recently, not to be uncouth and say 'shitless', was to look at a topographical representation of the society outlined in Orwell's 1984, delineating the small proportion of 'inner party' as '2\%' - and thinking of the 'trickle down' theory of economics deployed as rationale for tax cuts in the CounterPunch
- the students were bored shitless
- Remember the movie Mississippi Burning? when gene hackman goes to that little social club over the barber shop and grabs the guy by the balls and then stares down the deputy? when the deputy was scared shitless and his eyes rolled around in his head like bb's in a nickel hand game where you rolled them into a hole. "What do you have to forget or overlook in order to desire that this dysfunctional clan once more occupies the White House..."
- Seth Wright says brands like Bud and Coors are scared 'shitless' as the craft beer world explodes. Steve Rosenbaum: The People Powered Web
- They took the East because Hitler had scared Stalin shitless, and he decided that in the future he would fight the Germans in Warsaw rather than Kiev. Matthew Yglesias » Defense Spending in Europe
- Sitting with my buddies in a dark room illuminated only by the light of the tube, I watched with a stern determination to hide the fact I was scared shitless. Why Write Horror?