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Adjective
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So although these actions may seem fatuous on the surface, the next four years will be about looking for the undercurrents.—
Anita Chabria,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2025 -
Second, this rationale for regulation proved to be illogical and fatuous as conceded by U.S. Courts and the Federal Communications Commission in the decades since.—
Carine Harb,
Newsweek,
9 Jan. 2025
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The O’Haras happen to move in next door to him. Frothy and often filthy without being brainless (send thanks across the Atlantic for that good British dialogue), this is escapism done right.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
30 Oct. 2024
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So, what can the neuronal activity of a tiny, brainless creature possibly tell us about the evolution of our own complex brains?—
Elizabeth Rayne,
Ars Technica,
15 June 2024
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One suspects that development is not intended to underline how incredibly vacuous and petulant these central characters appear, when we’re meant to regard them as soulful soulmates.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
22 Jan. 2025
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The last thing the British royal family will be interested in is Meghan's inauthentic, cringey, vacuous celebrity cookery reality show.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
Fox News,
8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Before Due Date The expectant mother was pronounced brain-dead from her injuries on Sunday, Dec. 29, per Greek Reporter.—
Escher Walcott,
People.com,
4 Jan. 2025
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Her doctor, Jayme Locke, then an abdominal transplant surgeon at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, had previously led short-term pig kidney transplants in brain-dead recipients and suggested the experimental procedure as a last resort.—
Emily Mullin,
WIRED,
17 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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There are no more stupid questions and an open, supportive, and curious culture evolves.—
Darpan Munjal,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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The cliché that Americans are stupid and lazy is as pernicious as the cliché that teenagers are, well, stupid and lazy.—
John Hodgman,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Too many young people are making idiotic short-term financial decisions that hamper long-term success.—
Chandler Dean,
The New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2023
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Beyond the Lungs Two other cardiac cases impressed me — and blew away the idiotic notion that young people are immune to COVID-19.—
Tony Dajer,
Discover Magazine,
30 July 2020
Adjective
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Growing shares in each party describe those in the other party as more closed-minded, dishonest, immoral and unintelligent than other Americans.—
NBC News,
NBC News,
22 Dec. 2024
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In short: Wells assumed Neanderthals were unintelligent brutes.—
Byrd Pinkerton,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
Adjective
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The federal government, in all its wisdom, is once again gearing up to save the witless American people from themselves.—
Noah Rothman,
National Review,
3 Jan. 2025
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By most accounts, Trump’s ground game—powered by the witless Musk—was a bit of a mess, but Harris’s professional field operation seems to have been helpless to stem the tide of Trump’s support.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
5 Nov. 2024
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“Cretinous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cretinous. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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