idiotic

Example Sentences

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In a rollicking monologue, Fry described all opera as comedy, tragedy merely being the result of idiotic egos incapable of levity.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

But the parade of horribles recounted by Mr. Shapiro are at once comic and terrifying: deans harassing speakers, law students defaming anyone holding divergent views, faculty obsessed with idiotic academic theories.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

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

There’s nothing idiotic about that—an echo of Beirut long being known as the “Paris of the Middle East.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025

The negative column filled up fastest with words like stupid, disgraceful, foolish, laughable, wasteful, outraged, idiotic, scandalous, uninformed, half-baked, shamefully.

From "The Landry News" by Andrew Clements