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

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

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

He added that the "idiocy" of Mr Hancock's response, as well as then-attorney general Suella Braverman, risked undermining Covid laws, adding: "I'm ready to read the riot act as required."

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2023

I told her that doctors used to use the word idiocy to refer to mental retardation, and to the brain damage that accompanied hereditary syphilis.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot