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

“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

A detective in the tradition of Benoit Blanc and other modern descendants of the Agatha Christie whodunnit, she knows she’s usually the smartest person in the room and has no time for idiocy.

From Salon • Mar. 20, 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 was not sure if this was due to awe, fear, or basic idiocy.

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth