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adjective

variants or imbecilic

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of imbecile
Noun
Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. Sam Sacks, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2016 Hard to accept that these imbeciles represent the people in our government. Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2016
Adjective
But Newsom was voted into office by a nearly 2-to-1 margin, and he’s handled the unprecedented dual challenges of COVID-19 and climate change reasonably well and far better than the imbecile Trump. Steve Lopez Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for imbecile
Adjective
  • Too many young people are making idiotic short-term financial decisions that hamper long-term success.
    Chandler Dean, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Beyond the Lungs Two other cardiac cases impressed me — and blew away the idiotic notion that young people are immune to COVID-19.
    Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2020
Noun
  • An underrated gem — not enough people have seen this top-tier season — Squirrels Trip has some fabulous vocals, very funny lyrics, a heavy dose of stupid, and an engaging story.
    Barry Levitt, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2024
  • The stupid!
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 July 2021
Adjective
  • Ratajkowski has been fighting the stereotype of the dumb model from the beginning of her career.
    Daniel Jackson, Allure, 18 July 2017
  • Ninety nine percent of all NFL players are explicitly not dumb.
    Andy Benoit, The MMQB, 10 July 2017
Adjective
  • Many of the angel families here today were betrayed by the last administration and with its heartless, and foolish, and really very arrogant and dumb policies.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Walking away from that security might have seemed foolish at the time, but twelve years later, King runs a digital empire that has redefined entertainment.
    Ian Shepherd, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Mostly we are annoyed by inane thickets of regulation and are suckers for a politician who vows to sweep them aside.
    Peter C. Baker, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
  • CEXs have already had to kowtow to former EU member the United Kingdom’s inane crypto laws, forcing exchanges to code new front-ends and to exclude certain products and services from their UK service.
    Sean Lee, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • So although these actions may seem fatuous on the surface, the next four years will be about looking for the undercurrents.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Second, this rationale for regulation proved to be illogical and fatuous as conceded by U.S. Courts and the Federal Communications Commission in the decades since.
    Carine Harb, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Witherspoon’s timing is whip-crack good, and Ferrell’s is, too, on a different wavelength, even when the material’s settling for surprisingly witless profanity punchlines that don’t quiiiiite qualify as actual jokes.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2025
  • But this latest effort, premiering on Prime Video, proves a relentlessly vulgar and witless affair that not even the talents of stars Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon and a comedically gifted supporting cast can rescue.
    Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Adjective
  • Alonso may not be the priority at first base for the Bronx Bombers, but to say there is zero interest is asinine.
    Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Altman’s is a plainly asinine claim; a bunch of code running in a data center is not the same as a brain.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2024

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“Imbecile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imbecile. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.

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