gormless

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For most of the summer ... my local station sported a billboard on which a particularly gormless-looking Mr Kemp (he is, after all, a superb actor) plugged the Sky box thing.

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  • He mistook Lydia for gormless, which she's not, and an innocent, which she is. —  dummy 3
  • Velasco is particularly convincing as the gormless reporter and her subsequent terror is all the more infectious as a result. —  Listal promoted
  • The families running three months late with their mortgage payments weren't gormless, greedy, or hapless victims of unscrupulous, predatory lenders. —  CathNews
  • All except our Pete, who stands on stage for a few moments looking rather gormless (and drunk) then ambles off too. —  Word Magazine - Comments
  • Yes, it's Tv's wonky haired, gormless grinned gameshow-hosting, ex-radio producer Danny Wallace. —  Word Magazine -
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  1. From dialectal gawm, sense, from Middle English gome, notice, from Old Norse gaumr.
 

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