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Meanings of imbecile in English
Term once used in psychiatry to describe people of moderately low intelligence.
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Examples for "idiotic"
Examples for "idiotic"
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There's a great deal more of this idiotic list-making still to come.
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There's a YouTube video already, of course, and the inevitable idiotic comments.
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For example, check out this idiotic exchange on the blog The Intersection.
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I lose it in the vulgarest way-andsay the most idiotic things.
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I say idiotic because, already, science can replicate meat using plant-based proteins.
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It was not like the imbecilic shanties she had heard in Tarmuth.
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But a propos of the said Rochefort, have they been somewhat imbecilic?
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The imbecilic, bad-tempered, and childish little monster continued to invade his thoughts.
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He felt imbecilic, uttering these banal words: the vocabulary of love was so tired.
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Not only were Trump's comments imbecilic, he is wholly in the pocket of Putin.
Usage of imbecile in English
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Godoy reigned in Spain under the name of the imbecile Charles IV.
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At the end of it is the imbecile death of the nation.
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It is only the imbecile who does not succeed in doing so.
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The imbecile baron then got out; his shoulder was out of joint.
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The mother almost became an imbecile after the birth of the monster.
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I stripped him to his skin; he only laughed like an imbecile.
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Hawkins speaks one word at a time, as if to an imbecile.
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Thank God for Jones, and for his being such a perfect imbecile.
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She stared at her son, swaying backwards and forwards in imbecile misery.
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At the bottom of the Abyss they are feeble, besotted, and imbecile.
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Her serious expression extinguished the imbecile grin of which I was conscious.
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Zere ees nobody alive now but possibly zee imbecile ees still living.
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The Emperor Claudius played like an imbecile, and Nero like a madman.
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And all of us save Trampas fell into fits of imbecile laughter.
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After that, a gibbering imbecile, he went to live in Bughouse Alley.
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This imbecile little dog was not possessed of much delicacy of feeling.
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Imbecile through the time
Imbecile across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common