idiots
Example Sentences
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When useful idiots play along, the hypocrisy is double: Perpetrators pretend to be humane, and apologists pretend to believe them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
Elon Musk and Michael O’Leary are calling each other idiots — but shareholders of both companies would reject that charge.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 20, 2026
On Friday he took to social media to criticize “the usual idiots misinterpreting a Post article on Mets payroll.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025
“But do you know what these idiots did?” she laughs.
From Salon • Dec. 18, 2025
By dinnertime Jonah had convinced himself that Tony McGilicuddy and Jacob Hanes and Dustin Cravers were a bunch of idiots, and he didn’t really care what they thought or did.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
