idiocy

Example Sentences

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A few days later I saw a friend who knows his foreign affairs and he said, “Do you believe the idiocy of this guy?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 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

Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov said that plan displayed "moral idiocy".

From BBC • Sep. 8, 2023

Chronicler said, “Why don’t we take his word that we were both suffering from blinding idiocy, and leave it at that?”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss