How to use imbecile in a sentence

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• Now some adventuring imbecile had acquired an elective sickness and was paying its price.2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, New York: Vintage, page 130. From the entry elective
• Nurse B, in contrast, frownfully wonders how such imbeciles could ever come to exist.2007, Paul Saka, How to Think about Meaning. From the entry frownfully
• “You may be a feather—headed imbecile but is it a crime to be a feather-headed imbecile?2003, James C. Ferguson, Context Clues: A Basil Coventry Misadventure. From the entry feather-headed
• The Ministry of Health deals with schools for debiles with multiple handicaps and for “imbeciles.”1974, Edwin W. Martin, Jr.; Donald Blodgett; Stella A. Edwards; William C. Geer; John W. Melcher, “Administration of Education for…. From the entry debile
• Twenty-five drawings of a clavigerous lion guarding a rather imbecile teenage Britannia.1968, Anthony Burgess, Enderby Outside. From the entry clavigerous
• In the imbecile, in the idiot we find the same thing manifested.1914, Boris Sidis, The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology. From the entry asthenia
• Those with subnormal intelligence were considered idiots, moderate mental deficients were imbeciles, and debiles were those with mild mental defects.2023, Mark M. Rich, Invisible Eugenics: How the Medical System and Public Schools Are Killing Your Children, 2nd edition. From the entry debile
• I send my files to Dinsmore with a cutting note too subtle for thon to understand (thon is an imbecile, regardless of thon’s protected status).2020, Charlie Kaufman, Antkind, →ISBN, page 102. From the entry thon
• Terence Tadpole is a dolt, Sidney Squirrel is a sentimental idiot, Freddie Fox is a pie-eyed fool, Felix Frog is a perfect imbecile.1923 September 15, “Pat”, “Railway Supply Man’s Bedtime Story: Broadcasted from Station RYREV, Chicago. No. 23.”, in Willard A. Smith et…. From the entry pie-eyed
• She was a frightened fool, and she was fantastic, and I suppose that, at that time, she really cared for that imbecile.1915, Ford Madox Hueffer [i.e., Ford Madox Ford], The Good Soldier […], London: John Lane, The Bodley Head; New York, N.Y.: John Lane…. From the entry fantastic
• The microcephalic idiot is an unfortunate with a "pinhead," sometimes exhibited as a "what's-it" in circus side-shows, whose mental age never goes beyond that of an imbecile.1939, Amram Scheinfeld, Morton David Schweitzer, You and Heredity, Frederick A. Stokes Co., page 155. From the entry pinhead
• Her skull was hitched under her humped shoulders and her fallen jaw made a lipless O of her mouth, giving it an expression of imbecile astonishment.1938, Norman Lindsay, chapter XX, in Age of Consent, London: T[homas] Werner Laurie […], →OCLC, page 213. From the entry o

Meaning of imbecile

1. noun A person with limited mental capacity who can perform tasks and think only like a young child, in medical circles meaning a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal five- to seven-year-old child.
2. noun A fool, an idiot.
3. adjective Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; especially, mentally weak.

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How do you use imbecile in a sentence?

Imbecile is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “It is an offence for a man to have unlawful sexual intercourse with a woman whom he knows to be an idiot or imbecile.”

What is a short sentence with imbecile?

“hospitals for the imbecile and insane”

What does imbecile mean?

Imbecile means a person with limited mental capacity who can perform tasks and think only like a young child, in medical circles meaning a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal five- to seven-year-old child.