stupidity

Example Sentences

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It is a profound display of performative stupidity.

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026

"It shows the stupidity of the declassification process without historical knowledge," Zala believes.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

And not just because one of the leading contestants torched himself and his political livelihood in a bonfire of hubris and stupidity.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026

Soon after Hitler’s invasion of Poland, Camus inveighed that “it’s always futile to try to disengage, even if it’s from other people’s stupidity and cruelty. You can’t say, ‘I don’t know.’

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

That was my idea of stupidity, not heroism.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs