imbecile
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"I am an imbecile," the man said to the couple as he contemplated taking the long journey back.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2025
“That was the message that the universe was shouting at us loud and clear. And it would’ve taken an imbecile to ignore that market message,” Needham said.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2021
One French minister was furious: “Some consider they’re little heroes when they break the rules. Well, no. You’re an imbecile, and especially a threat to yourself.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 23, 2020
"Any imbecile might decide on a certain Monday to become a captain, and by Tuesday, with no qualifications whatsoever, that imbecile could take charge of a 300,000-ton vessel and the thousands of lives contained within."
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2020
He looks at me like I’m an imbecile puppy.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro called the culprits "imbeciles" after they were filmed on the waterway on Wednesday, and offered a restaurant dinner to anyone who could identify them.
From Reuters ● Aug. 18, 2022
In an instant, in the eyes of some classmates and rivals alike, they went from promising freshmen to everlasting imbeciles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2020
If I can’t convince these imbeciles of anything, I can at least annoy them, and I think I do a reasonably good job of that.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2019
Organisers are hoping to encourage the largest gathering of people dressed as Gumbys - the spectacle-wearing, knotted handkerchief-sporting imbeciles who became part of Python lore.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2019
The Corcorans were thoughtless but this was unconscionable; those monsters, I thought, those imbeciles, they just went off and left it here all by itself.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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