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

She must navigate the idiocy of her high school peers while solving a metaphysical murder mystery.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2025

Aside from the idiocy of the move itself, one of the most egregious screw-ups on that chat was the efense secretary sharing imminent war plans.

From Salon • Apr. 21, 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

“I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.”

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth