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How to use idiotic in a sentence

15 example sentences · adjective

Idiotic means pertaining to or resembling an idiot; characterised with behaviour resembling idiocy. Example: “Every week the Sunday Times names and shames a mampara—generally a public figure who has said or done something so idiotic that it boggles the mind.”

Examples of idiotic by meaning

adjectiveHaving the quality of idiocy; very foolish.

  • Everyone else shifted uncomfortably as this guy continued his derisive laughter and proclaimed my quest the most idiotic thing he'd heard in his life.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 131

More sentences with idiotic

  • Every week the Sunday Times names and shames a mampara—generally a public figure who has said or done something so idiotic that it boggles the mind.From the entry mampara
  • Which was idiotic, because there were Necromantic ones, Ghouls and Bonedancers and even Rancelmen.2013, Sheri S. Tepper, Wizard's Eleven. From the entry foof
  • Every reasonable source (aka not Democratic hateblogs) also disproves this troll's idiotic claims.2009 October 27, Jim Alder, “Re: Another leftard lie about President Bush”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet). From the entry hateblog
  • Mostly idiotic mumblage about how Paul McCartney was dead and had been replaced by a robot.2005 May 8, Citizen Arcane, ""Number Nine, Number Nine, Number Nine"," CitizenArcane.com (retrieved 10 June 2014). From the entry mumblage
  • Why, only the most idiotic, pudding-brained dolt would fall for a scheme like that!2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area…. From the entry pudding-brained
  • “That’s just the stupid, vulgar, idiotic, irresponsible name the New Zealand government has given it.1969 May 10, Cleveland Amory, “Review: The Galloping Gourmet”, in Merrill Panitt, editor, TV Guide, volume 17, number 19 (841 overall)…. From the entry kiwi fruit
  • For some idiotic reason the bureaucrats are more opposed to tea than to stuff.1947, William Burroughs, letter, 11 March. From the entry stuff
  • How she had crumpled her skirt, kneeling in that idiotic way.1918, Katherine Mansfield, "Prelude" in Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback, 2002, p. 120. From the entry botheration
  • For five years, he toe-danced his way through a path of idiotic triple talk, before the FCC finally shouted him down.1966, Don McGuire, The Day Television Died, page 237. From the entry toe-dance
  • The usual laundry soap commercial portrays only the idiotic houseslave, not how she got that way, or how uninteresting and unchallenging her life ultimately is.2012, Fred R. Berger, edited by Bruce Russell, Freedom, Rights And Pornography: A Collection of Papers, page 118. From the entry houseslave
  • As a rule novelists who treat of these people have a bad habit of making them out to be hopelessly idiotic or unlikelily vicious.1908, The Academy, page 909. From the entry unlikelily
  • These idiotic "plantscrapers", as they call them, are the ultimate symbol of pretending to be environmentally friendly while doing absolutely nothing to reduce your carbon footprint.2024 February 2, Adam Something, 0:07 from the start, in Why Green Skyscrapers are a Terrible Idea, YouTube. From the entry plantscraper
  • He called Carrington’s name with a mouth no longer capable of forming the syllables, passionately desiring the boy to be alive, and the result was a slobbing idiotic cry.1947, Herbert Ernest Bates, The Purple Plain, page 283. From the entry slob
  • It is a silly world, an idiotic world, and Tarzan of the Apes was a fool to renounce the freedom and the happiness of his jungle to come into it.”1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 17. From the entry supinely

Meaning of idiotic

  1. adjective Pertaining to or resembling an idiot; characterised with behaviour resembling idiocy.
  2. adjective Having the quality of idiocy; very foolish.

Full definition of idiotic

Questions about idiotic in a sentence

How do you use idiotic in a sentence?
Idiotic is used as an adjective. For example: “Every week the Sunday Times names and shames a mampara—generally a public figure who has said or done something so idiotic that it boggles the mind.”
What is a short sentence with idiotic?
“How she had crumpled her skirt, kneeling in that idiotic way.”
What does idiotic mean?
Idiotic means pertaining to or resembling an idiot; characterised with behaviour resembling idiocy.

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