imbecility
Example Sentences
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Artistic expression and intellectual inquiry are replaced by a new dark age, the triumph of tawdry spectacle and the celebration of crowd-pleasing imbecility.
From Salon • Aug. 16, 2022
He mortified them with tales of imbecility and treason.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 12, 2018
Like few auteurs or hacks before him have managed, Bay has a genius for imbecility; he turns incoherence into its own form of hyperkinetic abstract art.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2017
“If the motivation is immaturity and teenage imbecility, there ought to be alternatives available in all 50 states.”
From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2015
In his life, Donald wrapped himself in a kind of quiet that, depending on the observer, signaled imbecility or a reservoir of mystery.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
Vocabulary lists containing imbecility
"The Five Orange Pips" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Tales from Earthsea
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