imbecility

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Artistic expression and intellectual inquiry are replaced by a new dark age, the triumph of tawdry spectacle and the celebration of crowd-pleasing imbecility.

From Salon • Aug. 16, 2022

He mortified them with tales of imbecility and treason.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 12, 2018

Like few auteurs or hacks before him have managed, Bay has a genius for imbecility; he turns incoherence into its own form of hyperkinetic abstract art.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2017

“If the motivation is immaturity and teenage imbecility, there ought to be alternatives available in all 50 states.”

From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2015

In his life, Donald wrapped himself in a kind of quiet that, depending on the observer, signaled imbecility or a reservoir of mystery.

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