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
  • In Erasmus’s view, cutting and pasting still basically yields a copy, and a very dumb one to boot.
    Mario Carpo, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
  • America’s Semiquincentennial was celebrated across the country this summer with big, dumb, gluttonous fun.
    Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • No one, in my opinion, comes close to this selfish, foul-mouthed and stupid showman.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Our business is stupid, but actors are the bomb / From Martindale to Milioti, my dad and my mom.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2026

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“Moronic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moronic. Accessed 14 Sep. 2026.

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