idiot
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So, if you want to get the person to engage, you shouldn’t insult them, communicate that you think they’re an idiot or start yelling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
"People understood very quickly that an idiot was driving and they fled."
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
“Everything else is irrelevant,” he added, before suggesting I stop calling myself an idiot for not understanding the tech-heavy parts of this debate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
On the related but perhaps irrelevant question of individual character, the evidence is clear: Wilhelm II was an unstable and vainglorious idiot who wound up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2026
That’s when I realized that, even if she did call me an idiot, Red really cared what happened to me.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
This space has been littered with criticism of Kobe Bryant and LeBron James and other local legends who occasionally acted like idiots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026
It has succeeded in making Epstein’s accusers and denouncers also look like corrupt idiots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
“But do you know what these idiots did?” she laughs.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025
A Singapore minister says he "should have been more respectful" after calling Hong Kong football players and fans "idiots" following a decisive 2027 Asian Cup qualifier.
From Barron's ● Nov. 20, 2025
“Perhaps, in a thousand years,” said Spurge with a smile, “our books—books with our names upon them—will be the ones idiots like us will argue over.”
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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