as in stupidity
the quality or state of lacking intelligence or quickness of mind
I'm not sure if he leaves his front door unlocked from carelessness or just plain stupidness
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Watch stupidity and laziness (my much better working title for The End of Work was The End of Laziness) rapidly disappear as technological advance erases so much of what people used to do for a living in favor of living for work.—
John Tamny,
Forbes,
3 Dec. 2024 -
Their books’ fantasies of martyrdom and religious metaphysics are a feint so as not to recognize the need for socialism at home and abroad, and to obscure American stupidity.—
Mark Greif,
Harper's Magazine,
26 July 2024
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If you’re predetermined to have finer strands, there are ways of inflating and boosting them to encourage the appearance of thickness, which is where styling and cuts come in.—
Elle Turner,
Glamour,
21 Jan. 2025
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While its dimensions mirror those of the Tourbillon model at 35.5 mm wide by 38.6 mm in length, its case depth is just 7.70 mm tall owing to a movement thickness of only 3.1 mm.—
Paige Reddinger,
Robb Report,
21 Jan. 2025
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Fonseca got tough and the line between bravery and foolishness, at times, became imperceptible.—
James Horncastle,
The Athletic,
30 Dec. 2024
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The problem is not the companies but the system, whose foolishness is very clear to those, like me, who have spent decades abroad.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
17 Dec. 2024
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This insanity aside, allowing states to override federal enforcement priorities guarantees that the federal government will have to release or fail to arrest serious criminals to make way for peaceful people targeted by states with aggressive attorneys general.—
David J Bier,
Orange County Register,
19 Jan. 2025
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Toward the end of his frenetic set, though, DaBaby doubled down on the insanity.—
Théoden Janes,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Jan. 2025
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These tools emit electromagnetic waves that travel into the soil and bounce back signals that experts use to interpret ground density, soil composition, and even empty spaces.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
16 Jan. 2025
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Buffs have been made to various maps in terms of monster density, chests, number of rare and magic monsters, essences, strongboxes, shrines and all of this is without specific Waystone or Tower modifiers.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Stupidness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stupidness. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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