gormless
(chiefly, UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, of a person) Lacking intelligence, sense or understanding; foolish.
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Places where gullible & gormless voters appear ready to elect incompetent, racist Reform. This country is about to get even nastier for vulnerable minorities. 🫣https://liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/4398628/content.html
Bit rich of Paterson to be filming the one nation volunteer. Those poor gormless idiots don’t stand a chance.
I mean, this is The Buttermarket, so a large part of the heritage for that particular spot is 'bumping into coachloads of gormless tourists' (I'm with the 'increase seating' crowd - the Buttermarket is for dicking ab…
this is also undercut aswell by literally the next person in the video instantly going "this shit is unpronuncable I cant be assed so cut my some slack". Nightmare blunt rotation because john gormless shows why it's s…
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(chiefly, UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, of a person) Lacking intelligence, sense or understanding; foolish.
But Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood were both so gormless and so wrapped up in their own silly little lives that they failed to notice anything unusual about their daughter.
“Places where gullible & gormless voters appear ready to elect incompetent, racist Reform. This country is about to get even nastier for vulnerable minorities. 🫣https://liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/4398628/content.html”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Bit rich of Paterson to be filming the one nation volunteer. Those poor gormless idiots don’t stand a chance.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I mean, this is The Buttermarket, so a large part of the heritage for that particular spot is 'bumping into coachloads of gormless tourists' (I'm with the 'increase seating' crowd - the Buttermarket is for dicking about having a drink or a snack)”
— Bluesky· May 2026“this is also undercut aswell by literally the next person in the video instantly going "this shit is unpronuncable I cant be assed so cut my some slack". Nightmare blunt rotation because john gormless shows why it's still a better take to have as a baseline then the next dimwit.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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