idiocy
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Sometimes you have to break away from heavy, sodden reality and go straight into joyful idiocy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
“They’re plumbing new depths of idiocy with the memecoin launch,” Nic Carter, a crypto investor and Trump supporter, told Politico.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 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
In time they grew sick of my idiocy.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
“Still, despite my dire description, we elderly persist with our canes, in our long-term care and miserable nursing homes and ‘rehabilitation’ centers, and in our seats confronting the idiocies of the tube.
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2022
What follows is a non-exhaustive list of some of the major idiocies of the year.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 13, 2019
Or should he sit back in his chair and smile calmly at the idiocies of mankind?”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2015
The idiocies begin with the first sentence: “It has come to our attention while observing your nuclear negotiations with our government that you may not fully understand our constitutional system.”
From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2015
A small victory or two would help her to tolerate their idiocies and would stop her from going crazy.
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
