idiot

Example Sentences

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He heard, understood, bent to the water of the lochan—but she cried, “Not water, idiot! It’s a kludde! Earth—wet earth!”

From Literature

"I felt like such an idiot and it was humiliating."

From BBC

“He’s an idiot. Very wealthy, but he’s still an idiot.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Ryanair, which has often embraced online controversy, used the feud to launch an “idiot” sale, which O’Leary said drove as many as 4 million hits on the company’s website.

From MarketWatch

Realized, like an idiot, that he was nodding, and said, “That kind of stinks.”

From Literature