cretinous

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for cretinous
Adjective
  • The fatuous Fed/1930s narrative raises a basic question: why are successful investors paid so well?
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
  • So although these actions may seem fatuous on the surface, the next four years will be about looking for the undercurrents.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • This extends well beyond the 2025 Bombers, their signature head-scratching and somewhat brainless play on the field has plagued them dating back to 2021.
    James O'Connell, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2025
  • There's really no way to prep for the show — basically, just don't be brainless.
    Lindsay Soll, EW.com, 25 July 2025
Adjective
  • So in effect, Spotify’s AI self-disclosure will do nothing: These people are already churning out vacuous robo-reggae and admitting it.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 2 Oct. 2025
  • People feel free to throw out the first, poorly-thought-out, vacuous reaction to any news story — whether based in fact or fiction, and regardless of negative consequences.
    DP Opinion, Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • He was delivered by Caesarian section because a donor heart became available from a brain-dead baby in Canada.
    Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Doctors later told the family that Samuel is brain-dead and remains unresponsive.
    Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • And that’s a stupid, dumb, mindless question.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Dessert Week is the stupidest week, at least conceptually.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In Johnston’s reimagining, Jim and Credenza Twit operate the most disgusting, dangerous, and idiotic amusement park in the world, Twitlandia.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2025
  • That’s just idiotic foreign policy.
    Jamie McIntyre, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The life of an unattractive and unintelligent young woman living in a dreary backwater in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
    New York Times, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The man seemed to think he was surrounded by incompetent, unintelligent, wastes of space.
    Josh Davis, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Gavras and Arbery may have other, more singular aims in mind, hidden beneath all the obvious skewering of witless wealth.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Austin doesn't even seem to register his witless neighbor's lack of social skills until Craig punches his lights out—supposedly in fun—during a guys' night get-together.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 9 May 2025
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“Cretinous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cretinous. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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