How to Use unintelligent in a Sentence

unintelligent

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• Many who immigrate to the United States have to start their careers in lower-wage jobs, and they are looked down upon and dismissed as unskilled and unintelligent.
  — NBC News, 31 Jan. 2022
• Second, notice that liberals and Democrats who are Creationists tend to be kind of unintelligent.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2010
• Taerim, who Sanghui describes as second in beauty only to Hae-on, is venomous in her attempts to convince those around her that the dead girl was stuck-up, unintelligent, and never deserved adulation.
  — Arianna Rebolini, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2021
• In fact, if people don’t merge with computers, humans may soon become an unintelligent species compared to the machine intelligence that will exist.
  — Zoltan Istvan, Newsweek, 9 Mar. 2018
• Spliced videos have also portrayed her as stuttering and unintelligent.
  — New York Times, 1 May 2022
• And self-assured enough to make Melinda feel inane, extraneous, unintelligent.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2022
• Just a suggestion that people who tweet or speak profoundly unintelligent and potentially dangerous things should no longer be given a pass.
  — Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 9 Sep. 2021
• Two deft new stand-up specials dig into stereotypes about the unintelligent, dust them off and renovate them for a new era, while a new mockumentary gets even bigger laughs through the stunt of placing a fool in a variety of intellectual arenas.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2023
• As a result, dyslexia is known by enduring and sometimes contradictory myths, like that people who have it are all highly intelligent—or unintelligent and just not willing to admit it.
  — Kira Bindrim, Quartz, 16 May 2022
• But a new study complicates the narrative that only unintelligent people are prejudiced.
  — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 29 July 2017
• Corby’s jail was described in the Australian media as barbaric, the judges depicted as uninterested and unintelligent.
  — Kristen Gelineau, The Seattle Times, 19 May 2017
• Some people use fat to mean unlovable, undesirable, slovenly, unintelligent, lazy.
  — Your Fat Friend, SELF, 28 May 2021
• The viewing experience wasn’t cool at all — Chappelle’s perspective was just straight up unintelligent, harmful, and downright unnecessary.
  — Juliana Feliciano Reyes, Philly.com, 30 Jan. 2018
• In this brief text, the conservative website touched on several hot button issues that feed right into the Republicans' false narrative on Democrats: 1) Democrats are elitists who think average Americans are unintelligent.
  — The Intersection, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2011
• But two recent shows contradict traditional tropes, interestingly enough, by going the other direction and bringing new life to another Asian archetype: the unintelligent Asian.
  — Rachel Yang, Teen Vogue, 8 Aug. 2019
• Offering a reason is ethically unintelligent unless the other person asks for one.
  — Bruce Weinstein, Forbes, 6 July 2022
• His character — obfuscating, unrepentant, defensive, rather unintelligent — is enough for one exhibit and should be treated in its own right.
  — Andrew Koenig, National Review, 9 Sep. 2017
• Already the most political of recent secretaries of state, Pompeo has bristled at even the mildest criticism and accused his critics of being misguided, unintelligent or incompetent.
  — Matthew Lee, ajc, 15 Jan. 2021
• It’s about weaning ourselves off the entire approach of criticizing opposing political views by calling those who hold them unintelligent or irrational.
  — Andrew Pulrang, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
• The viewer feels an automatic sense of superiority because the cast appears so unintelligent.
  — Ian Goldstein, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2021
• Besides implying that being overweight is spiritually unintelligent (yikes), this book also puts a greater emphasis on mindset than on healthy eating or exercise.
  — Caroline Tew, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• Even otherwise intelligent literary people have a very unintelligent relationship to this part of human life.
  — Hazlitt, 3 Jan. 2023
• Humans have a long history of animosity toward reptiles, and influential twentieth century scientists added to the idea of reptiles as cold, unintelligent beasts.
  — Hannah Thomasy, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2022
• Adhering to standard journalistic practices, Benen refrains from stating that the president of the United States is objectively unintelligent.
  — Benjamin C. Waterhouse, Washington Post, 26 June 2020
• Nearly 40 percent of Democrats say Republicans are unintelligent.
  — Jon Marcus, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2021
• For all the hype around artificial intelligence and machine learning, the quickest and easiest way for companies to automate office work is through simple and decidedly unintelligent software automation.
  — Will Knight, Wired, 12 June 2020
• Rather liberals and conservatives increasingly seemed to view each other as inherently immoral, unintelligent and malicious.
  — Mike Yeomans, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2020
• AluNoir is emotionally unintelligent and emotionally immature.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 8 Dec. 2017

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