Thesaurus / idiocy
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Radius is the robot that understands his station and chafes at the idiocy of his makers, having acted out his frustrations by smashing statues.
THE FIRST ‘ROBOTS’ WERE MADE OF FLESH AND BONEBY JOHN M. JORDAN/MIT PRESS READERJANUARY 26, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEThe ambulance took more than half an hour to arrive, which was a criminal idiocy.
POLICE SEARCH HOME AND OFFICE OF MARADONA’S DOCTOR IN DEATH INVESTIGATIONRUBY MELLEN, ANA HERRERONOVEMBER 29, 2020WASHINGTON POSTThey were then amplified by social media algorithms “that were smart enough to spot a viral trend but dumb enough not to notice the idiocy of its content,” according to Wired, a technology magazine.
HOW CORONAVIRUS FEARS HAVE AMPLIFIED A BASELESS BUT DANGEROUS 5G CONSPIRACY THEORYBILLY PERRIGOAPRIL 9, 2020TIMETo this day Jean Kostka does not seem conscious of any element of idiocy in the variation of the old-fashioned name.
DEVIL-WORSHIP IN FRANCEARTHUR EDWARD WAITEInexhaustibly kind to undeserved misfortune, a little impatient of mere incompetence, implacable to continuous idiocy.
THE CREATORSMAY SINCLAIRThe sight he was looking on would have sent three men out of five into gibbering idiocy.
WITH EDGED TOOLSHENRY SETON MERRIMANPerhaps not until the child is six months old can the observer distinguish between blindness and idiocy.
THE MOTHER AND HER CHILDWILLIAM S. SADLERPhysical inhibition in the growth of the brain involves, on the mental side, feeble-mindedness and idiocy.
PSYCHOTHERAPYHUGO MNSTERBERGTwo incidents alone relieved the dead level of idiocy and incomprehensible gabble.
THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON - SWANSTON EDITION VOL. XXII (OF 25)ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTrampled upon, broken-spirited, and as if that's not enough, in my idiocy I must needs fall in love!
THE STORMALEKSANDR NICOLAEVICH OSTROVSKYWORDS RELATED TO IDIOCY
- absurdity
- craziness
- daftness
- dottiness
- dumb thing to do
- dumb trick
- fatuity
- foolishness
- idiocy
- imbecility
- impracticality
- imprudence
- inadvisability
- inanity
- indiscretion
- irrationality
- lunacy
- madness
- obliquity
- preposterousness
- rashness
- recklessness
- senselessness
- silliness
- stupidity
- triviality
- unsoundness
- vice
- witlessness
- absurdity
- absurdness
- bunk
- carrying-on
- claptrap
- craziness
- dumb trick
- folly
- fool trick
- foolery
- horse feathers
- idiocy
- impracticality
- imprudence
- inanity
- indiscretion
- insanity
- insensibility
- irrationality
- irresponsibility
- ludicrousness
- lunacy
- madness
- mistake
- nonsense
- poppycock
- preposterousness
- rubbish
- senselessness
- silliness
- stupidity
- tomfoolery
- tommyrot
- twaddle
- unreasonableness
- unwiseness
- weakness
- witlessness
- zaniness
- absurdity
- absurdness
- bunk
- carrying-on
- claptrap
- craziness
- dumb trick
- folly
- fool trick
- foolery
- horse feathers
- idiocy
- imbecility
- impracticality
- imprudence
- inanity
- indiscretion
- insanity
- insensibility
- irrationality
- irresponsibility
- ludicrousness
- lunacy
- madness
- mistake
- nonsense
- poppycock
- preposterousness
- rubbish
- silliness
- stupidity
- tomfoolery
- tommyrot
- twaddle
- unreasonableness
- unwiseness
- weakness
- witlessness
- zaniness
- absurdity
- babble
- balderdash
- baloney
- bananas
- blather
- bombast
- bull
- bunk
- bunkum
- claptrap
- drivel
- fatuity
- folly
- foolishness
- garbage
- gibberish
- hogwash
- hooey
- hot air
- idiocy
- imprudence
- inanity
- irrationality
- jazz
- jive
- ludicrousness
- madness
- mumbo jumbo
- palaver
- piffle
- poppycock
- prattle
- ranting
- rashness
- rigmarole
- rot
- rubbish
- scrawl
- scribble
- senselessness
- silliness
- soft soap
- stupidity
- thoughtlessness
- tomfoolery
- trash
- tripe
- twaddle
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