Synonyms of idiot box

idiot box

noun

as in TV

an electronic device with a screen and speakers that reproduces images and sound

she declared that she wouldn't have an idiot box in her home

Synonyms & Similar Words

• TV
• television
• tube
• boob tube
• box
• telly
• plasma
• home video
• LCD
• home theater

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of idiot box

Writers strove to position themselves as more cynical than the idiot box that knew itself to be an idiot box. — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025

All that, somehow, without Truman himself ever switching on the idiot box. — Armond White, National Review, 2 Aug. 2023

But the idiot box has also inspired arguably his worst projects, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and The Newsroom, sanctimonious and stupefyingly self-serious accounts of the woes of content creation. — Jason Bailey, Vulture, 21 Dec. 2021

All those childhood years in front of the idiot box could now be considered research — a lifetime of training, cleverly disguised as sloth. — Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2020