as in idiots
a stupid person
some moron forgot to lock the doors before going home
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Recent Examples of morons
The Dilbert principle — traced back to a quote in a 1995 strip — posited that managers and higher-ups are actually successful morons whose stubbornness is confused for real leadership qualities.
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Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2026
Overwhelmingly, though, the most common response was to seek confirmation of their suspicions that Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were morons.
—Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
There are worse things than watching Black, Rudd, and Zahn play three gormless morons on a mid-life misadventure, but almost every scene and setpiece is constructed with a haphazardness that blunders away their charm.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 23 Dec. 2025
Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2026
Overwhelmingly, though, the most common response was to seek confirmation of their suspicions that Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were morons.
—Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
There are worse things than watching Black, Rudd, and Zahn play three gormless morons on a mid-life misadventure, but almost every scene and setpiece is constructed with a haphazardness that blunders away their charm.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 23 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for morons
idiots
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This happens often enough when one administration succeeds another, to be sure, with the new team insisting that its predecessors were idiots, but the Hegseth Pentagon carries such insults to a new level.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
29 Jan. 2026
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As Venus points out in his confessional, the problem here is Marcus, who keeps making both of them look like idiots.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Morons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/morons. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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