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

But he went on to add, “John Dingell was not exactly a wallflower. John Dingell called the president an imbecile in his closing months.”

From Washington Times • Dec. 22, 2019

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

“My dear Celia, I cannot have my son getting married at a picnic on the beach,” Dona Zaida patiently explained, as if Lourdes’s mother were an imbecile.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García