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
She must navigate the idiocy of her high school peers while solving a metaphysical murder mystery.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 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
“I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.”
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.