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Noun
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Advertisement Aster keenly satirizes Joe’s idiocy in the face of social upheaval through the iconography of Westerns.—
Robert Daniels,
Time,
10 Oct. 2025 -
But my naivete and idiocy about what this was going to take was staggering to me just six months later.—
Scott Feinberg,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Aug. 2025
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Regularly maintaining your granite countertops is crucial to prevent stains, scratches, and dullness.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
29 Oct. 2025
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The high-tech mask uses a combination of red, red plus infrared, and blue LEDs that help with common skin problems like fine lines, sagging, wrinkles, dullness, and uneven texture.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
27 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Compare that to punk rock, which used dumbness as a tactic.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Aug. 2025
Noun
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While everyone else hustles about, the sloth knows that in slowness there is safety and success.—
Kate Siber,
Outside,
21 Oct. 2025
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Utility Redux’s earthy color stories, functional design and natural overdyes mirrors the growing appeal of slowness and simplicity.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Even at the outset of Covid-19, the unwisdom of lockdowns guided mainstream epidemiology.—
Phillip W. Magness and Peter C. Earle,
WSJ,
19 Dec. 2021
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Dog-dad Daryl proves the unwisdom of bringing his pet to work and ends up crawling through a crack in the rocks to chase his pup.—
Richard Rys,
Vulture,
15 Aug. 2021
Noun
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People often confuse quirkiness with stupidity.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Nov. 2025
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Why should Curtis have to back down to **maybe** save that city from its own stupidity?—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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The short uses stylized 3D and deadpan timing to explore routine, irritation and faint absurdity.—
Callum McLennan,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
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Understanding the absurdity of one trillion anything makes the $38 trillion US national debt that economists have been blathering on about for years look almost sensible.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Feeblemindedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feeblemindedness. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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