moronic

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Recent Examples of moronic Because being fooled once is a shame; being fooled twice — that’s moronic. Mirjam Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026 And before the perpetually whiny and moronic peanut gallery says that sports teams have special nights all the time, that’s true, but celebrating heritage, or veterans who fought and died for this country is just an eency weency bit different than force-feeding the gay agenda at a ball game! Tomi Lahren Outkick, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2026 Garrincha was characterised as childish and moronic in psychological tests commissioned by the Brazilian federation before that tournament in Sweden and was then left out of their first two games. Jack Lang, New York Times, 28 May 2026 His moronic tariffs continue to blow up in his face, spiking inflation and getting zero concessions from China. Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 25 Feb. 2026 In the annals of moronic behavior, driving forty minutes out of your way in the middle of the night in order to secretly and skillfully cut down everybody’s favorite tree does not come up. Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025 For those unfamiliar with large international sporting events, like the World Cup, combine the moronic passion of a major college football game with the subtlety of a drunk panther with the judgment of a mother on her daughter’s wedding day. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for moronic
Adjective
  • With just six 30-minute episodes per season (by design), some of these idiotic run-on stories inevitably hit the cutting room floor.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026
  • To Tommy, Anna and Molly are twittering encumbrances, idiotic in their insistence on good works and the good of man, their endless remorseful hedgings about the Communist Party.
    Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Combined with a brutal noon start time that provided no shade or relief throughout the game, the conditions meant there weren’t many fans brave enough, or quite frankly dumb enough, to endure a heat index of roughly 105 degrees.
    Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2026
  • There’s an incident at a gun range where Ned’s fear of looking emasculated requires his army vet girlfriend to fall for his very dumb, very obvious lies.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • The humor is like laughing about something that was just so stupid, or something that was so traumatic.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
  • That’s the problem with all of your arguments and stupid comments.
    Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2026

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“Moronic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moronic. Accessed 22 Sep. 2026.

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