What's the difference between gormless and sense?

Gormless


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "When you assign budgets thinner than your employee-issue loo roll there's little option but for Daily Star editors to build a newspaper from cut-and-paste jobs off the Daily Mail website, all tied together with gormless press releases.
  • (2) is the clifftop of bare acceptability beyond which tweeting like a child tips into the rolling, sticky spume of gormless, cuff-clenching twee.
  • (3) He may look just as gormless, but it's in a totally different way.
  • (4) A by no means exhaustive list of his political interventions includes: health – he forced ministers to listen to his gormless support for homeopathic treatments and every other variety of charlatanism and quackery; defence – he protested against cuts in the armed forces; justice – he complained about ordinary people’s access to law, or as he put it: “I dread the very real and growing prospect of an American-style personal injury culture”; political correctness – he opposes equality as I suppose a true royal must; GM foods – he thinks they’re dangerous, regardless of evidence; modern architecture – he’s against; and eco-towns – he’s for, as long as he has a say in their design.
  • (5) That the gormless believed a straight lie was all the proof it needed.
  • (6) These photos – if you look past the gormless Wayfarer-wearing Joey Essex-alike pouring champagne off the roof in the foreground – might reveal the location of several hidden assets.
  • (7) Just ask the gormless Sarah, who – bless – didn’t think a CV would help her find work and missed a meeting with her work coach back in March.
  • (8) Plus, he is a film star playing a film star, a gormless, 1950s version of himself, in a film that is partly about the surreal production-line nature of Hollywood’s golden age.
  • (9) It was a mess of pointless statistics and gormless campaigny stunts, like the one where Heston put a giant breakfast on the floor near a train station and chased commuters around until they ate it.
  • (10) Reaction around the globe was much the same: half the world shook their heads in sadness, their spirits crushed, as they considered the loss of El Diego's talent and the narratives that never would be; the other hopped around from foot to foot with big gormless grins on their faces as though their lottery numbers had just come up.
  • (11) It's a gormless action film about bloodthirsty revenge.
  • (12) But Malaysia's fancifully named " hibiscus revolution " has potential, at least, to inflict a winter of discontent on the gormless government of prime minister Najib Razak.
  • (13) Already Jared Kushner, husband to Ivanka, has reportedly ousted the head of the transition, the hapless and gormless New Jersey governor, Chris Christie.
  • (14) People go on and on about Columbo and how what made him so clever was that he acted gormless.
  • (15) But the Saatchi team refined it further, depicting a gormless-looking Miliband peeping out of Salmond’s top pocket.
  • (16) When you assign budgets thinner than your employee-issue loo roll there's little option but for Daily Star editors to build a newspaper from cut-and-paste-jobs off the Daily Mail website, all tied together with gormless press releases.
  • (17) If you truly can’t bear to watch the latest car crash in a Liberal election campaign that’s already rated women candidates for their “ sex appeal ” above their ability to discern “refugee intake” from a “traffic refuge island” and involved the gormless sexualisation of young female netball players , I’ll do my best to describe it again without gagging.
  • (18) The Great British Menu is easily just as gormless as MasterChef.
  • (19) The utter capitulation of London’s planning system in the face of serious money is detectable right there in that infantile, random collection of improbable sex toys poking gormlessly into the privatised air.

Sense


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See Muscular sense, under Muscular, and Temperature sense, under Temperature.
  • (v. t.) Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling.
  • (v. t.) Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation.
  • (v. t.) Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning.
  • (v. t.) That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion.
  • (v. t.) Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark.
  • (v. t.) Moral perception or appreciation.
  • (v. t.) One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface.
  • (v. t.) To perceive by the senses; to recognize.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An “out” vote would severely disrupt our lives, in an economic sense and a private sense.
  • (2) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
  • (3) One would expect banks to interpret this in a common sense and straightforward way without trying to circumvent it."
  • (4) Yesterday's flight may not quite have been one small step for man, but the hyperbole and the sense of history weighed heavily on those involved.
  • (5) Since the molecular weight of IgG is more than twice that of albumin and transferrin, it is concluded that the protein loss in Ménétrier's disease is nonselective in the sense that it affects a similar fraction of the intravascular masses of all plasma proteins.
  • (6) In this sense, there is evidence that in genetically susceptible individuals, environmental stresses can influence the long-term level of arterial pressure via the central and peripheral neural autonomic pathways.
  • (7) He captivated me, but not just because of his intellect; it was for his wisdom, his psychological insights and his sense of humour that I will always remember our dinners together.
  • (8) The narX gene product may be involved in sensing nitrate and phosphorylating NARL.
  • (9) The second reason it makes sense for Osborne not to crow too much is that in terms of output per head of population, the downturn is still not over.
  • (10) Longer times of radiolabeling demonstrated that the nascent RNA accumulated as 42S RNA, which was primarily of the same sense as the virion strand when it was radiolabeled at 5 h postinfection.
  • (11) Autonomy, sense of accomplishment and time spent in patient care ranked as the top three factors contributing to job satisfaction.
  • (12) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
  • (13) The anticoagulant therapy undertaken by the patient appears to be of some benefit in the sense that no recurrence of thrombotic manifestations occurred.
  • (14) The results showed that measles virus produced three size classes of plus-sense N-containing RNA species corresponding to monocistronic N RNA, bicistronic NP RNA, and antigenomes.
  • (15) In this sense synapse formation must be considered a drawn out affair.
  • (16) The last time Republic of Ireland played here in Dublin they produced a performance and result to stir the senses.
  • (17) The problem is that too many people in this place just get advised by people who are just like them, so there’s groupthink, and they have no sense of what it’s like out there.” Is he talking about his predecessor?
  • (18) Stimulation threshold, sensing, and resistance measurements from both leads were comparable.
  • (19) We just hope that … maybe she’s gone to see her friend, talk some sense into her,” Renu said, adding that Shamima “knew that it was a silly thing to do” and that she did not know why her friend had done it.
  • (20) A doctor the Guardian later speaks to insists it makes no sense.