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[ UK /ɡˈɔːmləs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (British informal) lacking intelligence and vitality

How To Use gormless In A Sentence

  • To academic historians they were ‘mere entertainment’ - just mindless pap for gormless morons.
  • The report prattles on gormlessly: ‘We cannot build our way out of the problems we face on our road networks.’
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • He was gormless, spoke in a funny nasal accent and looked as if he could do with a kick up the backside.
  • Shawn, the bridegroom, is played as a gormless buffoon; the real comedy of the earnest, strait-laced coward goes for nothing.
  • 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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