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
She must navigate the idiocy of her high school peers while solving a metaphysical murder mystery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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
Craps offered the player the illusion of control—after all, he rolled the dice—and a surface complexity that masked its deeper idiocy.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
A cranky novelist ensconced in a swanky setting, railing at the idiocies of the contemporary world.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 10, 2021
What follows is a non-exhaustive list of some of the major idiocies of the year.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 13, 2019
With its constant shape-shifting, cartwheeling narrative idiocies, Hong Kong-inflected action pyrotechnics and frequent fissures opening in the time-space continuum, Mr. Proyas’s movie is seldom dull.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2016
The essay that attracted my attention connects data points including the media tour of Bryan Goldberg, upon whom entertaining opprobrium has been heaped for his idiocies in launching Bustle.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2013
A small victory or two would help her to tolerate their idiocies and would stop her from going crazy.
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
