How to Use idiotic in a Sentence

idiotic

adjective
  • Hence, the eternal idiotic query: What does this win mean to you?
    Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 6 July 2022
  • To them, kicking tires might seem like the most idiotic idea on earth.
    Dale Buss, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
  • This sudden glory felt to him idiotic and a high price to pay.
    Longreads, 10 Apr. 2018
  • The Civil War has long been over, but the long, slow, idiotic march of white nonsense presses on.
    Anne Branigin, The Root, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Miller’s script is idiotic and silly but does have the kind of slight ring of truth that mockumentaries need to make the genre work.
    Rick Bentley, star-telegram.com, 5 July 2017
  • Look, that one guy saying that one idiotic thing that negates my talent is fine.
    Amber Ruffin, Vulture, 14 Jan. 2021
  • Then there are those who will see a film like The Tomorrow War, in all its idiotic glory, and give little yelps of joy.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 July 2021
  • Last year and the year before, being a Fire fan was to wallow in the cold mud pits of hell, half blind, wearing an idiotic, hapless grin.
    John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 2017
  • To undo her dad’s idiotic decisions, Raya has to bring the five pieces of the gem together.
    Kyle Smith, National Review, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The laundry list of his idiotic rants would fill a book and probably will sometime.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 29 Apr. 2021
  • It’s made by this idiotic show runner who keeps calling his show a novel instead of a TV show.
    Jonny Auping, Longreads, 25 June 2019
  • The newspaper would be thrown way in the next day’s trash and the only proof of the offending idiotic column would be in the memory banks of few readers.
    Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 8 June 2018
  • The Warriors can put Curry and Klay Thompson in the corner, away from the action, and not be considered idiotic.
    Marcus Thompson Ii, The Mercury News, 20 May 2017
  • It’s because fully explaining what the viewer would see on screen is so silly and idiotic as to be laughable and not in the least scary.
    Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2022
  • So this horrible, idiotic, disgrace of a human being who is at the end of his wretched life is now pulling out of the Paris climate deal?
    Thr Staff, Billboard, 1 June 2017
  • When the fury sets in, coach, when a player does something knuckleheaded or idiotic, don't yell at them.
    Dana Hunsinger Benbow, Indianapolis Star, 13 Oct. 2019
  • For years, there was an idiotic, unspoken rule where there could only be one or two A-list female rappers at a time.
    Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2020
  • On a day when the White House was trying to reset, the chyrons and headlines were, once again, about the president doing something idiotic.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 29 Apr. 2020
  • And stop with the idiotic comparisons with the number of people who are injured or who die behind the wheel of a car and those who are afflicted by the coronavirus.
    Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Even considering the razing of Columbine High School is an idiotic act of cowardice.
    Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 12 June 2019
  • But that hasn’t stopped some people from sharing deeply idiotic hot takes on social media.
    Phillyclout Team, Philly.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Mumme walked into the locker room with the distinct feeling their strange new strategy was idiotic.
    Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2018
  • But unless some of the owners and league officials have said or written idiotic things in meetings, emails, text messages, and the like, the collusion suit should be a loser.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The platinum coin is an elegant way out this idiotic legal trap.
    Ryan Cooper, The Week, 6 Oct. 2021
  • In the first two episodes of Season Three, Trump has only been a small nuisance—an idiotic voice acting big for the cameras, while the people with actual brains and power work behind the scenes.
    Matt Miller, Esquire, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Baseball mascots are idiotic by nature, but the Phanatic used a pneumatic hot dog gun to shoot hot dogs into the crowd.
    John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2018
  • Half of today's analysis will look idiotic in three months.
    Andrew Sharp, SI.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Those idiotic tweets of Trump have already hurt him with many suburban voters.
    John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Or maybe their voice was drowned out by all of our patriotic, idiotic, saber-rattling nonsense.
    Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 29 May 2020
  • But to say this is an issue that doesn’t affect me is absolutely idiotic.
    Rene Rodriguez, miamiherald, 31 May 2018

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