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

She must navigate the idiocy of her high school peers while solving a metaphysical murder mystery.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2025

A detective in the tradition of Benoit Blanc and other modern descendants of the Agatha Christie whodunnit, she knows she’s usually the smartest person in the room and has no time for idiocy.

From Salon • Mar. 20, 2025

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

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