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

I think it’s tragedy disguised as comedy, tragedy masquerading as comedy, in that the satire is in response to tragic idiocy and absurdity that is better responded to with humor than pure anger.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2024

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

The idiocy of this question, its unsettling logic, made Flora suddenly grateful for her father.

From "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" by Kate DiCamillo