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

"It took me three hours to get to where I am this morning, because the Mayor of London is an imbecile," he says with his usual tact.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2020

To me, she wasn’t an imbecile, but emblematic of these impossible standards, ones that Zellweger bore with painfully apologetic brightness.

From The Guardian • Jun. 24, 2020

Somewhere between camaraderie and imbecile I tap her beige bare shoulder with the note.

From "The Crossover" by Kwame Alexander