idiot

Example Sentences

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Turnbull -- who has described Taylor as the "best-qualified idiot" around -- warned the party faced disaster if it continued down that path.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

“I’ve changed a lot as a filmmaker, but I’m still the same idiot I’ve always been. That’s the bad news,” Iñárritu says laughing.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

“He’s an idiot for saying this,” radio host Dean Obeidallah said on his Sirius/XM radio show.

From Salon • Jan. 30, 2026

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

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026

Anya suspected she was looking at a pair of them, and that the younger one was the idiot she had spoken of.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack