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
But I will say you know, the Beatles wrote "Helter Skelter" and it's not their fault that some imbecile used it incorrectly.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2022
“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
“Luke was so scared he almost didn’t get himself down from there. Nell, what an imbecile you are.”
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
Tungay said he was "treating the French like imbeciles, making all these so-called tough declarations when the record is so catastrophic".
From BBC ● May 5, 2025
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
They were imbeciles, as well as being the Sassenach, and she herself was a saint She was, she discovered with a change of posture, interested in nothing but her darling boys.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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