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
Wider reporting of the incident has created a vague, semi-processed picture of just another footballing imbecile waving his underserved millions in the face of consumptive nurses everywhere.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2019
Mr. Galifianakis does his best brain-dead imbecile imitation as he portrays David Scott Ghantt, the real guy who stole the money.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 9, 2017
Somewhere between camaraderie and imbecile I tap her beige bare shoulder with the note.
From "The Crossover" by Kwame Alexander
Tungay said he was "treating the French like imbeciles, making all these so-called tough declarations when the record is so catastrophic".
From BBC ● May 5, 2025
I am not going to treat you like imbeciles or wayward children.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2020
Brantley Starr wrote an extravagantly snide and condescending opinion that essentially called government attorneys imbeciles who can’t even read Wikipedia.
From Slate ● May 14, 2020
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
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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