imbecile
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But I will say you know, the Beatles wrote "Helter Skelter" and it's not their fault that some imbecile used it incorrectly.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2022
“That was the message that the universe was shouting at us loud and clear. And it would’ve taken an imbecile to ignore that market message,” Needham said.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2021
To me, she wasn’t an imbecile, but emblematic of these impossible standards, ones that Zellweger bore with painfully apologetic brightness.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 24, 2020
But he went on to add, “John Dingell was not exactly a wallflower. John Dingell called the president an imbecile in his closing months.”
From Washington Times ● Dec. 22, 2019
"You're lucky he's not been reduced to a gibbering imbecile."
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
In an instant, in the eyes of some classmates and rivals alike, they went from promising freshmen to everlasting imbeciles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2020
If I can’t convince these imbeciles of anything, I can at least annoy them, and I think I do a reasonably good job of that.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2019
Organisers are hoping to encourage the largest gathering of people dressed as Gumbys - the spectacle-wearing, knotted handkerchief-sporting imbeciles who became part of Python lore.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2019
Last Thursday, Shkreli invoked his constitutional right against self-incrimination at a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on drug pricing, and later tweeted that lawmakers in Congress were imbeciles.
From Reuters ● Feb. 9, 2016
The Corcorans were thoughtless but this was unconscionable; those monsters, I thought, those imbeciles, they just went off and left it here all by itself.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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