idiocy

Example Sentences

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Sometimes you have to break away from heavy, sodden reality and go straight into joyful idiocy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

“They’re plumbing new depths of idiocy with the memecoin launch,” Nic Carter, a crypto investor and Trump supporter, told Politico.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025

I call on George Santos to engineer a crypto fleece or a phishing operation or really any scheme worthy of his singular, astonishing idiocy.

From Slate • Nov. 16, 2023

Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov said that plan displayed "moral idiocy".

From BBC • Sep. 8, 2023

It was idiocy, I thought, the military bed-making fetish, but the wisdom of the advice was immediately clear.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover