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gormless • adj., (chiefly British) lacking intelligence and vitality; dull.
etymology: From dialectal gawm, sense, from Middle English gome, notice, from Old Norse gaumr.
The word popped out in a sentence written by that extraordinary polymath, Willis Eschenbach, in a piece on the EPA at the blog Watts Up With That:
...What does that even mean, urban sustainability? The cities of the planet have sustained themselves for centuries without clueless, gormless bureaucrats meeting in Paris to discuss how to sustain them...
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/03/30/lisa-shops-sustainably-by-the-seine/
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