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

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

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

Or maybe an imbecile to think I’ll get an answer.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

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

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

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

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