How to Use clueless in a Sentence
clueless
adjective
- They were clueless about what to do.
- When it comes to computers, I'm clueless.
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Lee gives the role of clueless old pop a fresh, crusty warmth.
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Washington Post,
3 Mar. 2022
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When Covid-19 hit, the world was in many ways clueless on how to cope with it.
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Ilja Gorelik,
Forbes,
20 Oct. 2021
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Theodore, the clueless one, is in the back seat, drinking from a brown paper bag.
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BostonGlobe.com,
9 Aug. 2021
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But a few of them are clueless enough to ask if Mike himself is Tony.
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Michael Washburn,
National Review,
24 Oct. 2021
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My dad used to say this when my wife and I were young, clueless parents.
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Kevin Fredericks,
Men's Health,
6 Oct. 2022
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Hope plays a clueless tourist and rock collector who takes a taxi to a dive bar.
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David Reamer,
Anchorage Daily News,
21 Aug. 2022
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The rest were clueless about what to say, just plain hadn’t noticed, or something else.
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Stephanie Dolgoff,
Good Housekeeping,
1 Aug. 2022
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But then the show clued us in while everyone else was still clueless.
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Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
10 Nov. 2022
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While head coach James Franklin and perhaps a few others were in on the joke, those trying out for the team looked to be clueless.
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Anna Lazarus Caplan,
Peoplemag,
9 Nov. 2022
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But on Halloween, guess who was clueless on how to deal with the orange helmets?
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Terry Pluto,
cleveland,
31 Oct. 2022
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For those of us clueless about the metric system, that’s roughly an inch or two.
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Shira Ovide,
Washington Post,
27 Nov. 2023
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Pass game, run game, whatever, and if a team is clueless enough to punt to Covey, that’s on them.
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Josh Newman,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
19 Sep. 2021
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These scenes belong in some 1940s screwball romance, with Cary Grant as the clueless male.
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Celia Storey,
Arkansas Online,
29 May 2023
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Or the person was very cheap or perhaps clueless with money?
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Terry Pluto,
cleveland,
7 Jan. 2023
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At first agents were clueless that the Order even existed.
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New York Times,
1 May 2021
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The police arrive, led by the well-intentioned, but clueless chief Lou Raskin.
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Matt Cabral,
EW.com,
14 Oct. 2021
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The smaller female, eager and clueless, passed the bigger male and was soon within 50 yards.
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David Zeug,
Outdoor Life,
22 Jan. 2023
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Alas, the rest of the royal establishment can be more backward and clueless.
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Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Mar. 2021
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Painters speak to other painters like dogs to other dogs: Their clueless masters have nothing to do with it.
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Washington Post,
19 Jan. 2022
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But many voters don’t want anything to do with a party that’s clueless enough to keep Mr. Trump as the headliner of its show.
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Dave Seminara,
WSJ,
11 Sep. 2022
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The person who assaulted you is a predator, and your cousin appears to be clueless.
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Abigail Van Buren,
oregonlive,
2 June 2021
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What clueless things would Debra tell her own daughters?
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Allegra Goodman,
The New Yorker,
20 Feb. 2023
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In Lisa McGee’s series, the Troubles are an unavoidable part of life for five clueless high schoolers.
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Adrienne Gaffney,
ELLE,
12 Oct. 2022
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Even Anna piles on, clueless that her friend might be suffering.
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Maria Fontoura,
Rolling Stone,
26 Mar. 2021
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Its ensemble is more varied than Knives‘, and its critique of the clueless rich more relevant to our age.
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John Defore,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Sep. 2022
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Hearing Kimmel and Buttigieg reminisce about his guest-hosting stint serves as a reminder for just how clueless many of us were at the time as to what was to come.
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Chris Murphy,
Vulture,
12 Mar. 2021
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But in the mid-’90s, average people, even the drummer for Mötley Crüe, were clueless about the internet.
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John Anderson,
WSJ,
1 Feb. 2022
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In video games, non-playable characters can be somewhat clueless.
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Cecilia D'anastasio,
Wired,
18 Jan. 2022
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