clewless

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1. Without a clew (thread to guide one's way through a maze)

   And now the muse (with courage not her own, / But that which heav'n protects with Freedom's, throne) / Has dar'd a clew-less passage to explore[…].

   1772, Thomas Hallie Delamayne, The Senators, page 40

2. Clueless.

   A young person of the unfair sex addicted to clewless conduct and views that madden to crime.

   1911, Ambrose Bierce, “maiden”, in The Devil’s Dictionary, New York, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.: The Neale Publishing Company, →OCLC

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1. Without a clew (thread to guide one's way through a maze)

   He wandered clewless in a maze of mystery.

   2007, Julian Hawthorne, Idolatry, →ISBN, page 209