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
“My dear Celia, I cannot have my son getting married at a picnic on the beach,” Dona Zaida patiently explained, as if Lourdes’s mother were an imbecile.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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
Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro called the culprits "imbeciles" after they were filmed on the waterway on Wednesday, and offered a restaurant dinner to anyone who could identify them.
From Reuters ● Aug. 18, 2022
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
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