idiotic

variants also idiotical

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Recent Examples of idiotic But, here, the characters suffer from the horror film syndrome of making one idiotic decision after another because that’s what the film requires to send the action in its intended direction. Scott Phillips, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025 Lacey Chabert—forever to be known as Gretchen Wieners from Mean Girls—commands the screen with warmth, while Dustin Milligan plays the part of a (slightly idiotic) snowman turned man to perfection. Christian Allaire, Vogue, 26 Nov. 2024 O’Malley’s characters are excitable, idiotic, often repellent, but there’s a poignancy to them, too. Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2024 The current policies are idiotic. The Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for idiotic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for idiotic
Adjective
  • Napier got a one-year honeymoon until a Week 1 loss at Utah in 2023, the year when the Gators committed a silly amount of dumb penalties (including the original instance of two guys wearing the same jersey).
    Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The reigning Super Bowl champs better hope that’s the dumbest thing that one of their players does this season.
    Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The 2016 World Series champion walked in free agency that offseason to the Philadelphia Phillies where he's produced at a ridiculous level on a perennial National League contender.
    Tim Crowley, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Like his Washington, Bargatze’s Farnsworth regaled a trio of underlings (SNL cast members Bowen Yang, Mikey Day, and James Austin Johnson) with ridiculous yet accurate predictions for the future, in this case of TV.
    Judy Berman, Time, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Losing Fed independence is like giving free rein to emotional, irrational decision making.
    Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Maura’s performance makes Maria Angeles so magnetic and eccentric — earthily practical on some matters, dizzily irrational on others, and sympathetically true to herself on all fronts — that all the film’s other players want for detail and texture by comparison.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The league might be skeptical that the Clippers were merely ignorant of the Aspiration-Leonard relationship and question why the team didn’t undertake more diligence.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Conversations that would’ve otherwise been fun and intellectually stimulating will start to feel childish and ignorant.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Russia is trying to paint Ukraine as the unreasonable party in negotiations, Ferris said.
    Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Darryl Morin, national president of Forward Latino, a Latino advocacy group based in Franklin, Wisconsin, said the decision erodes Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure.
    Francesca Pica, jsonline.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Let sound political prescience but take the place of an unreasoning prejudice, and this will be done.
    Frederick Douglass, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2017

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“Idiotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/idiotic. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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