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Meanings of imbecile in inglés
Term once used in psychiatry to describe people of moderately low intelligence.
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Examples for "fool"
Examples for "fool"
1
This government tickles that itching palm, though people know it's fool's gold.
2
The wittiest person in the comedy is he that plays the fool.
3
In my fool heart I did; and I do not know yet.
4
But fool I am; for I am in love with another woman.
5
I was a fool to stop the motor; did it without thinking.
1
Everyone passed, East made her opening lead, and I tabled the dummy.
2
But the thrill of the game is not in tackling the dummy.
3
The dummy is better for showing up the defects in your work.
4
The shower being over we returned to the house of the dummy.
5
It was as good as we had ever done in dummy runs.
1
Besides, it pleased him to be able to snub that lout, Partridge.
2
Call him over, and the young farmer stepped nearer to the lout.
3
The stolid country lout of a sentry views all new-comers with suspicion.
4
She was worried lout paying for the gardener's funeral, of all things.
5
He is a lout, with great eyes staring, and a red nose.
1
This great oaf of a bear grinning at a time like this?
2
You need to learn how to accept someone's gratitude, you big oaf.
3
And the oaf stood before him undisturbedly opening up the subject himself.
4
Some oaf in a terminal staff suit uniform, officious smile in place.
5
The man was a foul-smelling oaf and as strong as a bear.
1
If that galoot had his way, we'd make our entry in irons.
2
She longs for S.G. Prebleman, the most lovable galoot she ever knew.
3
Now there was an ugly galoot whose name isn't worth mentioning.
4
Who's this galoot you've just kept from being ripped to ribbons?
5
He could lam any galoot of his inches in America.
Usage of imbecile in inglés
1
Godoy reigned in Spain under the name of the imbecile Charles IV.
2
At the end of it is the imbecile death of the nation.
3
It is only the imbecile who does not succeed in doing so.
4
The imbecile baron then got out; his shoulder was out of joint.
5
The mother almost became an imbecile after the birth of the monster.
6
I stripped him to his skin; he only laughed like an imbecile.
7
Hawkins speaks one word at a time, as if to an imbecile.
8
Thank God for Jones, and for his being such a perfect imbecile.
9
She stared at her son, swaying backwards and forwards in imbecile misery.
10
At the bottom of the Abyss they are feeble, besotted, and imbecile.
11
Her serious expression extinguished the imbecile grin of which I was conscious.
12
Zere ees nobody alive now but possibly zee imbecile ees still living.
13
The Emperor Claudius played like an imbecile, and Nero like a madman.
14
And all of us save Trampas fell into fits of imbecile laughter.
15
After that, a gibbering imbecile, he went to live in Bughouse Alley.
16
This imbecile little dog was not possessed of much delicacy of feeling.
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Translations for imbecile
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español
Imbecile through the time
Imbecile across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common