idiocy

Example Sentences

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A few days later I saw a friend who knows his foreign affairs and he said, “Do you believe the idiocy of this guy?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

Utter asininity is the bread and butter of “The Naked Gun,” and the movie milks cop idiocy for all its worth.

From Salon • Aug. 1, 2025

I call on George Santos to engineer a crypto fleece or a phishing operation or really any scheme worthy of his singular, astonishing idiocy.

From Slate • Nov. 16, 2023

Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov said that plan displayed "moral idiocy".

From BBC • Sep. 8, 2023

Guessing she can see the idiocy on my face or something because she’s laughing.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone