gormlessness

Don P's sidekick Claudio falls dippily for their host's daughter Hero: his - and her - gormlessness is ruthlessly sent up.

Funk It Up About Nothin' - review 2011

Looking at the way Carroll was deployed, and the gormlessness of the football going on around him, it was impossible to escape the conclusion that only England could make 4-2-3-1, the favoured formation in recent seasons of sophisticated sides such as Spain, Barcelona and José Mourinho's Internazionale, look like a relic of the past.

Andy Carroll's style matched England's retro football Richard Williams at Wembley 2010

It's not that I'm unsympathetic - I really am, but I also cannot believe the utter gormlessness of supposedly "well-educated" people who fail to use basic common sense when dealing with financial issues.

Don`t Spoil The Subprime Newmania 2007

To applaud or respect her is the acme of Pollyanish naivity and gormlessness.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

Now this is more sad than hilarious, but when the control grab extends to the enlisting of neighborhood bakeries in disappointing children for the making of one-off and short-lived copies, the gormlessness quotient is running high.

Boing Boing: June 12, 2005 - June 18, 2005 Archives 2005

As Cory said "There are days when the gormlessness of the other side of the copyfight generates a great deal of unintentional hilarity."

Boing Boing: June 12, 2005 - June 18, 2005 Archives 2005

The check-in area was mobbed and chaotic, as per for Monday morning, with the added joy of a party of Euro - teens milling around with that particular gormlessness which only hormone-addled post-pubescent continentals could truly evince.

A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001

A gratifying gang of supporters gathered around me in my complaints about middle-lane huggers on motorways, with dozens of readers nominating that act of gormlessness as their top gripe.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

The level of gormlessness on display above is beyond parody.

The Guardian World News Charlotte Higgins 2011

Australian blood in the first world war, the product not of a gormlessness that "believes all things" but of anger in defence of life.

Wake Up From Your Slumber - The Truth Will Set You Free 2010