imbecile
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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
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
One French minister was furious: “Some consider they’re little heroes when they break the rules. Well, no. You’re an imbecile, and especially a threat to yourself.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 23, 2020
"You're lucky he's not been reduced to a gibbering imbecile."
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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
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
Instead he laughed, twirled a pencil and yawned, and later called the lawmakers "imbeciles" on Twitter.
From Reuters ● Jun. 11, 2016
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
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