imbecile

Example Sentences

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My friend Alessandro Palazzi, who's the famous bartender at Duke's in London, says, "Anybody who says they make the best martini is an imbecile because everybody's got different tastes."

From Salon • May 1, 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

Wider reporting of the incident has created a vague, semi-processed picture of just another footballing imbecile waving his underserved millions in the face of consumptive nurses everywhere.

From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2019

Mr. Galifianakis does his best brain-dead imbecile imitation as he portrays David Scott Ghantt, the real guy who stole the money.

From Washington Times • Feb. 9, 2017

He shook his head, grinning like an imbecile.

From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff