idiotic

Example Sentences

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The clip is worth watching, and not just to marvel yet again at Vance’s ability to make idiotic statements in the self-assured tone of the smartest boy in the room.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2026

None of that means, mind you, that this alternately idiotic and delusional document — described in that Economist editorial, using an enjoyable Anglo-idiom, as “a dog’s breakfast” — is not dangerous.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025

I close with the special force of the idiotic idea.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

Richard Padley, for Peagram, said: "He notes his behaviour as idiotic, immature, embarrassing and pathetic."

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2025

He gave a talk in which he argued that the way they measured risk was completely idiotic.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis