Word of the Day:
stupidity
What It Means
The property of being stupid.
An act that is stupid.
I suppose you can put it down to gross stupidity, but that's not much of an excuse.
Stupidity in Context
“And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness...”
Did You Know?
From Latin stupiditātem, accusative of Latin stupiditās, equivalent to stupid + -ity.
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