idiot
Example Sentences
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It has succeeded in making Epstein’s accusers and denouncers also look like corrupt idiots.
When useful idiots play along, the hypocrisy is double: Perpetrators pretend to be humane, and apologists pretend to believe them.
As if the boy were some kind of idiot!
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Sometimes I was convinced she did, but there were moments when I felt like an idiot just imagining things.
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He heard, understood, bent to the water of the lochan—but she cried, “Not water, idiot! It’s a kludde! Earth—wet earth!”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.