How to Use clueless in a Sentence

clueless

adjective

• They were clueless about what to do.
• When it comes to computers, I'm clueless.
• The chimp could be clueless and content; the dog could be wild with grief.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
• But YouTube execs are clueless to their own audience and don't know its value.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2024
• One notable finding from the survey was how clueless many parents are about whether their kids are using generative AI.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 18 Sep. 2024
• Meanwhile, Wai, who has a full-time job, proves typically clueless — grudgingly offering the barest of help with parenting and disparaging her desire to keep working.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Or that geeks are clueless and fashion-impaired and have the social skills of a bowl of fruit.
  — Regina Lynn, WIRED, 6 Apr. 2007
• 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
• But on Halloween, guess who was clueless on how to deal with the orange helmets?
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 31 Oct. 2022
• There was a lot of upset in the cities, protests about (the murder of) George Floyd and the clueless response from people in power.
  — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 24 Mar. 2024
• For those of us clueless about the metric system, that’s roughly an inch or two.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
• Pass game, run game, whatever, and if a team is clueless enough to punt to Covey, that’s on them.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Sep. 2021
• In the first episode, these clueless home reno experts will end up working in a cartel stash house.
  — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 3 Feb. 2020
• Big Pharma’ and clueless quacks who ‘haven’t done their research’ like me.
  — Korin Miller, Health.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• Freidman and his boys were allowed to spend and were clueless on how.
  — latimes.com, 18 May 2018

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024