How to Use clueless in a Sentence

clueless

adjective
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  • They were clueless about what to do.
  • When it comes to computers, I'm clueless.
  • Or that geeks are clueless and fashion-impaired and have the social skills of a bowl of fruit.
    — Regina Lynn, WIRED, 6 Apr. 2007
  • Or maybe these parents really are the most clueless people around town.
    — Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 26 Jan. 2017
  • There’s style to spare in Ridley Scott’s latest Alien yarn; too bad all the characters are so clueless.
    — vanityfair.com, 15 May 2017
  • But on Monday night, the late-night host proved that people are even more clueless about Donald Trump’s replacement bill.
    — Laura Bradley, HWD, 9 May 2017
  • Even the oncologists who prescribe cancer treatment might not realize that so many of their patients are clueless about what’s going on.
    — Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News, 12 June 2017
  • Even the oncologists who prescribe cancer treatment might not realize that so many of their patients are clueless about what's going on.
    — Liz Szabo, CNN, 15 June 2017
  • And there are the people who are fundamentally clueless about the general nature of public service.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 18 Jan. 2017
  • The ultimate outcome may boil down to a simple judgment: Was Mr. Trump criminal or clueless?
    — Carl Hulse, New York Times, 9 June 2017
  • Mathews’ encounter with the clueless driver shows Uber didn’t successfully educate all its drivers.
    — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 Apr. 2017
  • But there are many romantic comedies that feature the smooth character helping the clueless character figure out the ropes of attracting the opposite gender.
    — Rich Santos, Marie Claire, 29 Jan. 2010
  • Lee gives the role of clueless old pop a fresh, crusty warmth.
    — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
  • When Covid-19 hit, the world was in many ways clueless on how to cope with it.
    — Ilja Gorelik, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
  • In the 1990s, the name Becky was used as slang for a clueless white woman.
    — Richard Chin, Star Tribune, 4 Aug. 2020
  • How could the voter be so clueless as to vote for this fraud?
    — Letters To The Editor, Orange County Register, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Theodore, the clueless one, is in the back seat, drinking from a brown paper bag.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2021
  • But a few of them are clueless enough to ask if Mike himself is Tony.
    — Michael Washburn, National Review, 24 Oct. 2021
  • My dad used to say this when my wife and I were young, clueless parents.
    — Kevin Fredericks, Men's Health, 6 Oct. 2022
  • In their view, much of the film and TV business is now run by clueless outsiders.
    — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Biden got failing grades and polls on his clueless handling of the Swine Flu H1N1.
    — Nick Wadhams, Bloomberg.com, 18 June 2020
  • The traffic, parking, and clueless tourist hordes only added to the slump.
    — Nicolas Stecher, Robb Report, 2 July 2024
  • Hope plays a clueless tourist and rock collector who takes a taxi to a dive bar.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2022
  • The rest were clueless about what to say, just plain hadn’t noticed, or something else.
    — Stephanie Dolgoff, Good Housekeeping, 1 Aug. 2022
  • But then the show clued us in while everyone else was still clueless.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 10 Nov. 2022
  • This one deals with a woman who has suffered a loss and the semi-clueless friends who try to help her.
    — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 23 June 2020
  • 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.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The ownership groups of both teams have been pretty clueless for a long time now.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Her well-meaning but clueless husband, played by Scoot McNair, frequently travels for work, leaving her at home to fend for herself and whip up countless pots of macaroni and cheese.
    — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
  • In that vein, The Substance felt like just another slasher, body horror movie, where the victims (clueless, not careful enough, hubristic) are partly responsible for their hideous demise.
    — Valerie Monroe, Allure, 30 Sep. 2024

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