How to Use stupidity in a Sentence
stupidity
noun- I was shocked by the stupidity of their decision.
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The sum of their stupidity is greater than the two parts.
— Fox News, 12 Sep. 2018 -
So older folks, go ahead and laugh at the stupidity of the young.
— Charlotte Carroll, SI.com, 13 Jan. 2018 -
That male stupidity is the center of the play, not race.
— Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2021 -
The loss rests squarely on the shoulders of the head coach and his 4th down stupidity.
— oregonlive, 11 Nov. 2022 -
But even his best efforts to be a good cop butt up against the wall of his stupidity.
— David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2017 -
The humans have lost a lot of colonists: a few to the ’saurs, more to infection, but most to stupidity.
— Tom Shippey, WSJ, 19 June 2020 -
But there's no point in going through the stupidity of that idea.
— Khadrice Rollins, SI.com, 11 June 2019 -
The sing-song in her voice brought a smile to my face, knowing she, too, reveled in my stupidity.
— Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2022 -
The investors deserved to lose their shirts; greed and stupidity got the better of them.
— WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023 -
Your strategic stupidity may cost you in the short term.
— Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2019 -
That somehow merges in my mind — the brutality of it and the stupidity of it.
— Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2022 -
Also, forgive my math stupidity, but why scale it to 100 in the first place?
— Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2023 -
That’s when the toxic cocktail of greed, stupidity and hubris takes over.
— Andy Kessler, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2022 -
The entire earth really needs a good laugh these days and the boys are back to help bring stupidity to a new out-of-this-world level.
— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 27 June 2022 -
In a world where so much wealth is concentrated in the hands of so few, that stupidity can be a sort of comfort.
— Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2022 -
To think this movie is just fantasy is to drown in stupidity.
— Armond White, National Review, 15 Dec. 2017 -
My point here is not the hypocrisy and stupidity of celebrities, Leonardo DiCaprio sailing around on the world’s fifth-largest yacht and all that.
— Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 29 Dec. 2019 -
But even that—blaming white women for a black men’s stupidity—is more of the same sexism Snoop’s peddled from the jump.
— Angela Helm, The Root, 21 May 2018 -
Stupid, and that stupidity is gonna keep corona around longer than anyone wants.
— Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 15 June 2020 -
And maybe, just maybe, that doesn’t happen without some of the arrogance and stupidity of his younger years.
— USA Today, 21 Jan. 2021 -
But its prequel does it right, focusing more on the mythology of the old-school board game, rather than the stupidity of it.
— cleveland.com, 8 June 2017 -
There are no winners in this game of blundering stupidity that Auburn likes to play with the football team and the hearts of its faithful fans.
— Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 11 Feb. 2022 -
What’s been built to date can stand as a monument to the arrogance and stupidity of Newsom and his cronies.
— Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 5 Jan. 2024 -
The stupidity of that claim is truly shocking, even in a politician.
— Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 6 Feb. 2020 -
This is largely the reason why the series endures, since the creators haven't shied away from playing up the stupidity of it all.
— Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 28 June 2019 -
Many of those belong to Vaughn — now there is an actor not afraid to lean into stupidity.
— Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug. 2020 -
But eventually fun gives up the ghost; stupidity wins out and then stomps fun’s skull like an egg.
— Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 31 Jan. 2024 -
The arrogance, greed and stupidity found in most of today’s politicians caught up with him.
— Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2024 -
The author of this stupidity — himself a former arrestee — should be held accountable by voters when his tenure is up.
— Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2024
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