How to Use clueless in a Sentence

clueless

adjective

• They were clueless about what to do.
• When it comes to computers, I'm clueless.
• Democrats have been relatively clueless since the day I was born.
  — Drew Magary, GQ, 6 July 2017
• Maybe in the US, where young, white, rich, clueless white males routinely get away with raping women.
  — Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 27 June 2017
• Most Seattle drivers are courteous, if a bit clueless about how to safely share the road with bicyclists.
  — Jessica Lee, The Seattle Times, 1 Sep. 2017
• Thank you to Zendaya for reminding us that even mothers of celebs are totally clueless about ~most~ things technology.
  — Willa Bennett, Seventeen, 19 July 2017
• The rich and clueless are easy targets, but Kargman’s found a way to stack her show with delicious, Wusthof-sharp detail that sets it apart from the satirical pack.
  — vanityfair.com, 11 July 2017
• Politicians and political observers are still clueless as to how much disgust there is over our dysfunctional government.
  — WSJ, 6 Aug. 2017
• Phil Jackson, the increasingly out-of-touch, clueless team president, is threatening to ruin all of this because of his bruised ego.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 22 June 2017
• A plane carrying a bunch of largely clueless do-gooders is hijacked by terrorists and tragedy, along with pontificating, ensues.
  — Melissa H. Pierson, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Aug. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024