Word: cluelessness
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...Inspector Zhang Dehua admits that his officers didn't check the cheap hotels in his area. Local reporters covering the cases had their stories spiked, but the reports were distributed internally to city officials. The news blackout choked off possible leads from ordinary citizens?and kept potential victims clueless as to the dangers of walking home from work at night. "If we'd known there was a killer around, we would have been more careful," says Yao Ping, the truck-driver husband of victim Wang Guiyu. "But nobody told...
...home he is the architect of a catastrophic famine that has killed hundreds of thousands?maybe millions?of his subjects since 1995. On the international chessboard, Kim's performance has been scarcely more awe inspiring. Indeed, in the current nuclear drama, many of Pyongyang's moves are careless or clueless miscalculations...
Before Nat joined the wonderful world that is FM land, he was accustomed to trekking from the Quad to the Yard for class. These days, Nat’s jaunts have become a lot more involved, as he’s wandered the streets following clueless first-year lushes and the campus’ hottest pieces of meat, the hotties of FM’s Scoped. Nat is famous for his infinite patience—he mentors all the new photog compers and even endures long sessions of incoming FM executive hotties Mollie H. Chen and Irin Carmon staring...
Administrators seem to have identified an important problem within the Harvardian psyche. After busting a gut to get here, students are clueless about how to relax and enjoy the fruits of their successes. How to rectify it, though, is another challenge altogether. Lewis’ extremely small-scale suggestions to that end are limited to not creating “more yardsticks”—such as having grade point averages calculated to three decimal places. Yet, by so doing, he rightly acknowledges that decisions about priorities while at college can only be made by individual students...
...like to talk cock, and I like to speak Singlish. It's inventive, witty and colorful. If a Singaporean gets frustrated at your stupidity, he can scold you for being blur as sotong (clueless as a squid). At work, I've often been reprimanded for having an "itchy backside," meaning I enjoy disrupting things when I'm bored. When I don't understand what's going on, I say, "Sorry, but I catch no ball, man," which stems from the Hokkien liah boh kiew. There's an exhaustive lexicon of such Singlish gems at talkingcock.com, a hugely popular, satirical website...