idiotic
Example Sentences
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In a rollicking monologue, Fry described all opera as comedy, tragedy merely being the result of idiotic egos incapable of levity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
But the parade of horribles recounted by Mr. Shapiro are at once comic and terrifying: deans harassing speakers, law students defaming anyone holding divergent views, faculty obsessed with idiotic academic theories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
I close with the special force of the idiotic idea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
Richard Padley, for Peagram, said: "He notes his behaviour as idiotic, immature, embarrassing and pathetic."
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2025
My faux-pas was so palpably obvious, so idiotic and unpardonable, that to ignore it would show me to be an even greater fool if possible, than I was already.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
