imbecile
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"I am an imbecile," the man said to the couple as he contemplated taking the long journey back.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2025
“That was the message that the universe was shouting at us loud and clear. And it would’ve taken an imbecile to ignore that market message,” Needham said.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2021
"Any imbecile might decide on a certain Monday to become a captain, and by Tuesday, with no qualifications whatsoever, that imbecile could take charge of a 300,000-ton vessel and the thousands of lives contained within."
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2020
But he went on to add, “John Dingell was not exactly a wallflower. John Dingell called the president an imbecile in his closing months.”
From Washington Times ● Dec. 22, 2019
Her pale, bloated face wore an expression of imbecile happiness.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
Tungay said he was "treating the French like imbeciles, making all these so-called tough declarations when the record is so catastrophic".
From BBC ● May 5, 2025
I am not going to treat you like imbeciles or wayward children.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2020
Brantley Starr wrote an extravagantly snide and condescending opinion that essentially called government attorneys imbeciles who can’t even read Wikipedia.
From Slate ● May 14, 2020
In an instant, in the eyes of some classmates and rivals alike, they went from promising freshmen to everlasting imbeciles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2020
They were imbeciles, as well as being the Sassenach, and she herself was a saint She was, she discovered with a change of posture, interested in nothing but her darling boys.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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