imbecile

My friend Alessandro Palazzi, who's the famous bartender at Duke's in London, says, "Anybody who says they make the best martini is an imbecile because everybody's got different tastes."

From Salon ● May 1, 2025

“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

The farmer waited on rain like an imbecile, the shopkeeper arranged row after row of necessary but dull merchandise.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

Mr Stratford said they had requested risk and equality impact assessments on the council's decision, but they felt "dismissed" and "treated like we were imbeciles".

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2025

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

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

The grouchy woman began screaming, telling us we were imbeciles, that we were all going to die, so why didn’t we eat well until then?

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys