idiotic

variants also idiotical

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of idiotic And, most perplexingly, did Styles hock a loogie on co-star Chris Pine’s lap at the screening, as social media sleuths contended, or was Spitgate merely a collective hallucination driven by insatiable appetite for idiotic controversy? Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2022 At the press conference before the first LIV event, each golfer who spoke sounded more idiotic than the one who came before. Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 9 June 2022 The fracture widens and hardens—fanatic, schismatic, idiotic. Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022 Within minutes of arriving in the Sooner state, Dwight has taken over a legal marijuana dispensary run by an idiotic stoner (Martin Starr), wielding nothing but a metal water bottle as a weapon. Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2022 See All Example Sentences for idiotic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for idiotic
Adjective
  • Ratajkowski has been fighting the stereotype of the dumb model from the beginning of her career.
    Daniel Jackson, Allure, 18 July 2017
  • Ninety nine percent of all NFL players are explicitly not dumb.
    Andy Benoit, The MMQB, 10 July 2017
Adjective
  • This hate against transgender people is so ridiculous.
    John Russell, People.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Even in witnessing how ridiculous — and dangerous — the rivalry is, Cherry ultimately isn’t brave enough to make a change.
    Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Many voters said Governor Whitmer’s order, which restricted an outdoor activity – gardening – seemed irrational and excessive, even at the time.
    Jacob Turcotte, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Mar. 2025
  • But the widening gap between its real-world performance and analysts’ earnings estimates for unborn products has prompted some to warn of irrational exuberance.
    Chris Kirkham, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Another director might have shied away from such minutiae or worse, be completely ignorant of them.
    Josh Weiss, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Consider that Mahmoud Khalil, an anti-war protester and recent graduate of Columbia University, was arrested on a Saturday night by ICE agents who appeared ignorant of his status as a legal U.S. resident and his rights thereof.
    Nisha Whitehead, Orange County Register, 16 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The words were harsh but the logic was not unreasonable.
    George Caulkin, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
  • This would not be an unreasonable proposition, considering the U.S. already pledged a security guarantee to Ukraine upon its return of all nuclear warheads to Russia by 1996, based on the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances.
    Seung-Whan Choi, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2025

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“Idiotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/idiotic. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.

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