Every time a failure like that occurs in another department, I'm tempted to call them idiots, but then people like you come along to demonstrate what true idiocy looks like.
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Idiocy
//ˈɪdiəsi//
Synonyms for "idiocy" (88 found)
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Related words (44)
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11 entriesTranslations
33 translations across 21 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- идиотия noun (state of being an idiot)
- идиотщина noun (extremely foolish behaviour)
Catalan
2 entries- estupidesa noun (state of being an idiot)
- idiòcia noun (state of being an idiot)
Chichewa
1 entries- utsiru noun (state of being an idiot)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 白痴 noun (state of being an idiot)
Czech
1 entries- idiocie noun (state of being an idiot)
Danish
1 entries- idioti noun (state of being an idiot)
Esperanto
1 entries- idioteco noun (state of being an idiot)
Finnish
3 entries- idioottimaisuus noun (state of being an idiot)
- idiotia noun (state of being an idiot)
- tylsämielisyys noun (state of being an idiot)
French
1 entries- idiotie noun (state of being an idiot)
German
1 entries- Idiotie noun (state of being an idiot)
Greek
2 entries- ηλιθιότητα noun (state of being an idiot)
- ιδιωτεία noun (state of being an idiot)
Italian
1 entries- stupidità noun (state of being an idiot)
Manx
3 entries- meecheealaght noun (state of being an idiot)
- meecheeallid noun (state of being an idiot)
- ommidys noun (state of being an idiot)
Middle English
2 entries- sotie noun (extremely foolish behaviour)
- sotschipe noun (extremely foolish behaviour)
Occitan
1 entries- idiocia noun (state of being an idiot)
Portuguese
2 entries- estupidez noun (state of being an idiot)
- idiotice noun (state of being an idiot)
Russian
2 entries- идио́тство noun (state of being an idiot)
- идиоти́зм noun (state of being an idiot)
Spanish
2 entries- estupidez noun (state of being an idiot)
- idiotez noun (state of being an idiot)
Tagalog
1 entries- kaungasan noun (state of being an idiot)
Ukrainian
2 entries- ідіоти́зм noun (state of being an idiot)
- ідіоти́зм noun (extremely foolish behaviour)
Volapük
1 entries- diot noun (state of being an idiot)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
The gesture of adolescence, which raves for this or that on one day with the ever-present possibility of damning it as idiocy on the next, is now socialized.
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If you can't impress them with skill, impress them with idiocy.
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There will be more laws. The Venus of Willendorf will destroy all fools who poison the earth in their idiocy.
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