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

Utter asininity is the bread and butter of “The Naked Gun,” and the movie milks cop idiocy for all its worth.

From Salon • Aug. 1, 2025

They were supposed to still be furious at how the Padres had showboated their way to a Game 2 victory that incited Dodger Stadium fans into idiocy, right?

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2024

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

Each one convinced of his own purity and outraged by the idiocy he saw in the other.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison