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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Democrats are clueless and lost.
—Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
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Lee gives the role of clueless old pop a fresh, crusty warmth.
—Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
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Shannon is game but clueless about what to get.
—Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
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How could the voter be so clueless as to vote for this fraud?
—Letters To The Editor, Orange County Register, 27 Mar. 2024
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Being clueless did help in some ways.
—Kimberly McCreight, Time, 3 June 2026
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But then the show clued us in while everyone else was still clueless.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 10 Nov. 2022
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Hope plays a clueless tourist and rock collector who takes a taxi to a dive bar.
—David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2022
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And even the most clueless man would not bring a bouquet of fake roses to a date.
—Lizz Schumer, People.com, 27 May 2025
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Often, part of the bit was being rather clueless of her guests’ feats.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 31 July 2025
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My dad used to say this when my wife and I were young, clueless parents.
—Kevin Fredericks, Men's Health, 6 Oct. 2022
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Theodore, the clueless one, is in the back seat, drinking from a brown paper bag.
—BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2021
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In other words, clueless White folks.
—Literary Hub, 11 Feb. 2026
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The rest were clueless about what to say, just plain hadn’t noticed, or something else.
—Stephanie Dolgoff, Good Housekeeping, 1 Aug. 2022
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Huw comes across as weak, desperate and clueless.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
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When Covid-19 hit, the world was in many ways clueless on how to cope with it.
—Ilja Gorelik, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
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Freidman and his boys were allowed to spend and were clueless on how.
—latimes.com, 18 May 2018
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The ownership groups of both teams have been pretty clueless for a long time now.
—Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2020
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But a few of them are clueless enough to ask if Mike himself is Tony.
—Michael Washburn, National Review, 24 Oct. 2021
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Steve told anyone who would listen that John was clueless.
—Geoffrey Cain, Vanity Fair, 11 May 2026
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For those of us clueless about the metric system, that’s roughly an inch or two.
—Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
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At times, the streets were angry and politicians on both sides often seemed clueless.
—Terry Pluto, cleveland, 7 Nov. 2020
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The founder may be brilliant at code, but clueless at marketing.
—Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2025
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Or that geeks are clueless and fashion-impaired and have the social skills of a bowl of fruit.
—Regina Lynn, WIRED, 6 Apr. 2007
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How can companies be so clueless?
—Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 29 Aug. 2025
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The traffic, parking, and clueless tourist hordes only added to the slump.
—Nicolas Stecher, Robb Report, 2 July 2024
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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
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Big Pharma’ and clueless quacks who ‘haven’t done their research’ like me.
—Korin Miller, Health.com, 30 Oct. 2019
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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
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