How To Use Imbecile In A Sentence
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All one can say that is positive about this awful, stupid, imbecile dullard of a PM is that one day, soon he'll be gone and thank god for that.
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Usually I was so depressed on that day that I could find it in myself to be sarcastic, which meant it wasn't worth the dealing with the imbecile morons that attended Tucker High.
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When a finger points at the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger.
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No matter what you call the mentally deficient, that term will come to be an insult when applied to people of ordinary intellectual capacity, and not long after it will be seen as an insult to the true idiots, imbeciles, and so forth.
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Have we become a nation of obese imbeciles too sated with our diet of consumerism, television and self-indulgence to care who is pulling the strings at the top?
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. C.S. Lewis
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He seems to cast his male characters as spineless imbeciles, and spend the rest of the novel drivelling an apology on behalf of the whole of his gender.
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I told you to act like a drunk vagrant imbecile.
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arguments" the term venerable is used instead of mouldy, and hallowed instead of devilish; whereas there is nothing properly venerable or antique about a language which is not yet four hundred years old, and about a jumble of imbecile spellings which were grotesque in the beginning, and which grow more and more grotesque with the flight of the years.
Chapters from My Autobiography
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But with Harleston's entry the affair assumed quite a different aspect; and it is no reflection on you, Marston, that your expedition to his apartment didn't succeed; though somewhat later Crenshaw did act as a semi-reasonable man, and secured the letter -- only to foozle again like an imbecile.
The Cab of the Sleeping Horse
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Culturally, could China be forming en masse what Zhou Zhiqiang from Nankai University in Tianjin calls "happy imbeciles" -- a cultural form secretly encouraged by the State's aesthetical project?
Pepe Escobar: Shanghai and the Mystery of China's Soft Power
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He even goes as far as to proclaim that we are foolish, imbeciles, insane and lunatics, if that what his term ‘idiocy’ translates as.
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Utopian lines; there will be no illiterates unless they are unteachable imbeciles, no rule-of-thumb toilers as inadaptable as trained beasts.
A Modern Utopia
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These are short-sighted, power-crazed, intellectually degenerate, self-serving, morally empty imbeciles!
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I don't think I'd be able to lose sleep over you pathetic imbeciles if I tried.
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The genius (such as it is) resides in the system, not in a string of Ubermensch at the top gazing in horror at the imbecile masses.
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When his wife saw this, she said, "I have no occasion for thee, now thou are become pegless as a eunuch, shaven and shorn;" and he answered her, saying, "All this comes of thine ill-omened counsel and thine imbecile judgment.
Arabian nights. English
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The people who have been telling you about all the rights you have are simply exercising one of theirs - the right to be imbeciles.
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. C.S. Lewis
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Of course, we can't save those people if some imbecile is in charge of the very effort to save those people.
09/12/2005
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. C.S. Lewis
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History will most certainly exact a heavy price from them for being such imbeciles.
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In the Eighteenth Century, imbeciles but not idiots could be executed for capital offenses.
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Through these means they sought to identify groups they classified as ‘mental defectives’ or the feeble-minded, idiots, and imbeciles.
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In some respects she was a little bit of a imbecile, in that nothing was sacred.
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Rules and regulations take a backseat during this fortnight of imbecile fanaticism.
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I don't want to deal with these imbeciles any longer.
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We're doing this because bloggers provide a waste to the internet, an amassing of imbeciles who think they deserve to be heard, and think people actually care.
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Try ordering your chicken fingers now, imbeciles!
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What we resent is the deplorable, but democratic, success of junk culture and junk food, and of a political system which seems to be run by corrupt imbeciles.
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Thus, the EU will bring no improvement to road safety and, as it takes its greater role in projecting road safety myths, and progressively assumes responsibility for speed enforcement standards, we can transfer our detestation from the imbeciles who are at present destroying road safety, and direct it at the EU.
They know not what they do
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He was surrounded by his imbecile friends and his girlfriend-of-the-day, Chloe, all of them just gossiping like the idiots they are.
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He crushed with his contempt the two stockish imbeciles who did not understand the sublimity of his song, which opened wide the heavens!
Jean-Christophe, Volume I
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Between historical pessimism and imbecile revolution, there is a stretch of arid territory where the cartoonist retires to.
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The imbecile is hopefully the face of the right for future elections for there is no better way to drive people in the other direction than to have Lipstick Fido show up.
Palin back at crucial campaign stop
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Watching the sly but brilliant machinations of the programme - makers as they assembled their castaways, I was consumed with fury that these imbeciles were going to have the privilege of living on my island without appreciating it.
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Glancing round with an imbecile smile, you sniggeringly observe that "it hasn't got much hair has it?
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
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At least real conservatives stick by their guns, but you're the worst kind of pusillanimous, wobbling imbeciles.
Took a ride on the reading
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As he is about to bury the gold coins, his imbecile brother Jacob appears, pitchfork in hand.
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Can a more triumphant imbecile, a more abject dabster, a more stercoraceous bourgeois be found!
The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
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Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes smugly proclaimed, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough."
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A teabagger win for any office would be extremely damaging to this country, but this imbecile is willing to risk it to teach the Dems a lesson.
Think Progress » Carl Cameron Gets Chummy With Brown Supporters, Ducks Question Of Fox News’ Ethics
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And all of these imbeciles remain unaccountable after refusing to resign in light of their own struggles with morality.
Jenny Sanford moving out of governor's mansion
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After asking respondents their names, addresses, ages and occupations it asks them to list the state of their mental health reporting whether they are deaf and dumb, blind, lunatic, an imbecile or feeble-minded.
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So, forward this to that imbecile Johnson and tell him to let go of drugs and start listening to the music he reviews instead of just hearing it.
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It definitely does not work if local school boards consist of booboisie imbeciles intellectually unfit to make decisions about how to teach and what to teach.
Dan Agin: 'Missing Links': A Book About Us
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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. Albert Schweitzer
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Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it
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Chagrined as he was at what he termed his imbecile stupidity in not knowing his own heart all these past months, and convinced, as he also was, that Alice and Calderwell cared for each other, he could see no way for him but to play the part of a man of kindliness and honor, leaving a clear field for his preferred rival, and bringing no shadow of regret to mar the happiness of the girl he loved.
Miss Billy -- Married
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He isn't really so much a provocateur as he is a sort of freelance imbecile, a flesh and blood cartoon.
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I don't want to deal with these imbeciles any longer.
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I find it extraordinary that our country is seemingly run by imbeciles (assuming I'm not breaking any laws by expressing this point of view).
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She looked at me with an imbecile grin.
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How am I ever going to learn to talk if I'm surrounded by imbeciles?
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The 1901 census revealed that more than 13,000 people were living in asylums, officially classed as lunatics or imbeciles.
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I mean, other than changing their mind from “this troll is dumb” to “this troll is a total imbecile,” of course.
Think Progress » Scott Brown Yawns At Plane Attack On IRS Building: ‘No One Likes Paying Taxes’
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He is a bawler, who makes a great noise; and yet if he has a little imbecile cousin, he puts him in the priests college for me to make a chaplain of him.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
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Time and increasing exposure has shown him to be a loudmouth crybaby, gutless hypocrite, economic buffoon, geopolitical imbecile, and possessed of the emotional fortitude of a ten-year-old.
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These imbecile is in serious need of a few episodes of Bill Nye the Science Guy.
Think Progress » Hannity: Snow Storms ‘Seem To Contradict Al Gore’s Hysterical Global Warming Theories’
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. C.S. Lewis
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Even pretending to be an imbecile did not blind her to the fact that her advisors broke into sly smiles they quickly tried to conceal when they saw the piece of silk sticking out of her bag.
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I don't want to deal with these imbeciles any longer.
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'You will have to take on a mate or two in the polishing line,' said Jack to Killick, who was gazing round with a kind of imbecile rapture at the number of surfaces that he might now attack with powdered chalk and shammy leather: like many seamen he had a passion for making metal shine, and he had already reduced Jack's earliest silver plates to something not far removed from foil.
Archive 2009-04-01
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The yard was deserted except for an adolescent boy, apparently an imbecile, sunning himself on a dungheap and greeting imaginary travelers with sitting bows and words of welcome.
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Je sais que l'opinion d'un imbecile heureux est toujours tres drole si elle n'est pas enrichissante pour autant, donc si je le sais et que je parle quand meme alors je n'ai pas de raison de me vexer de la reaction des gens qui l'ecoutent ou plutot qui attendent que j'me taise plutot, puisque je pars conscient du resultat!
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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An imbecile habit has risen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be held in another.
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That's comforting - if you're a spineless, codependent imbecile.
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Nevertheless, for the dissenters, the Eighteenth Century understanding of the Eighth Amendment - and the ancient idiot / imbecile distinction - pretty much settled the case.
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Instead, when the train drew up at the next station, she hopped blithely on to the platform and was greatly surprised to find a young friend of hers, the Reverend Noel Wells, seated upon the nearest bench, his long black-trousered legs uncanonically sprawling, his soft black hat tilted over his eyes, his mouth wide open and an expression of imbecile contentment on his vacuous, sleeping face.
Death at the Opera
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When his wife saw this, she said, “I have no occasion for thee, now thou are become pegless as a eunuch, shaven and shorn;” and he answered her, saying, “All this comes of thine ill-omened counsel and thine imbecile judgment.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Any imbecile can put a pile of chopped up tomatoes on toasted bread and call it bruschetta.
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After asking respondents their names, addresses, ages and occupations it asks them to list the state of their mental health reporting whether they are deaf and dumb, blind, lunatic, an imbecile or feeble-minded.
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An imbecile is defined as a feeble minded person having the mental age of three to seven years.
Think Progress » Lieberman Flashback: Questioning Bush’s Credibility Is Central To Democracy
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For whatever reason, he's got a column in the NYTimes, and so he has the power to change people's attitudes toward education (or rather, educatedness) almost by Imbecile's Fiat.
Wax Banks
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Or are you really raising a bunch of imbeciles in your house?
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Yeah, Margot was an annoyance, a jealousy inducing pain, but she was way more appealing as a roomie than that imbecile counsellor.
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I can hardly believe I share a country with these imbeciles.
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The robust rural Saxon degenerates in the mills to the Leicester stockinger, to the imbecile Manchester spinner, -- far on the way to be spiders and needles.
English Traits (1856)
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Dont let the white house door hit you in the ass on the way out. googbye to all the imbeciles in Bush administration. i pray and hope that the world court will indite these criminals for war crimes. looking back they have destroyed america and for which it stands for.freedom. they have destroyed americas economy and made her a third world country.
Yes They Did! Mall Throng Sang 'Hey Hey Goodbye' as Bush Flew Off!
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I don't want to deal with these imbeciles any longer.
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Dorks are just quirky and silly, an imbecile is a person whose mental acumen is well below par.
Think Progress » Cuccinelli mocks dangers of CO2, telling Tea Partiers to hold their breath and make the EPA happy.
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As the mint and one or two other necessary ingredients were lacking to our family stores, the idea of julep was dismissed as a vain dream, and its place supplied by iced Congress water, a liquid which my cousin characterized, in a hasty aside to me, as being a drink fit only for imbecile infants of a tender age.
The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel
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The majority of new staff don't usually stay on for longer than a month, due to the fact that the place is run by an intolerable bunch of more-money-than-common-decency morons and imbeciles.
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Labelled aments (literally ‘without mind’), idiots or imbeciles, they were dealt with in the same way as those who had lost their reason, by incarceration in the new nineteenth-century lunatic asylums.
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The imbecile drivelled, about an imaginary toff, who had once given him two hundred and fifty-seven golden sovereigns.
The Spike
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How do you cretinous imbeciles manage to lose your effing shoes when you're out for a walk?
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And what kind of a moronic imbecile search engine would send them my blog as a result?
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I say you’re a fu (king imbecile for ridiculously trying to claim a case of sexual harrassment is actually a “love affair” dipshit … … … ….
Think Progress » Forgetting His Attacks On The Netroots, O’Reilly Says Media Are Using ‘Nuts’ To ‘Brand’ Tea Party As ‘Racists
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Frustrated, and as always, completely unable to handle my own imperfections, I settled in with my mother's aged copy of Mastering The Art of French Cooking, only to learn that it is not me, but my imbecile American eggs at fault.
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Jesus christ on a cracker, is this chic an imbecile.
Think Progress » Did Palin write the answers to Tea Party Convention questions on her hand?
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Have we become a nation of obese imbeciles too sated with our diet of consumerism, television and self-indulgence to care who is pulling the strings at the top?
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These are short-sighted, power-crazed, intellectually degenerate, self-serving, morally empty imbeciles!
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That is all you need to know about the imbecile plot.
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The slobbering imbecile is just desperate for company.
Think Progress » Fifty-five years after Brown v. Board, Mississippi county schools ordered to stop school segregation.
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We have real issues that require to be addressed and instead this imbecile gallivants all over the country appearing on radio stations to perpetuate his agenda.
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Through these means they sought to identify groups they classified as ‘mental defectives’ or the feeble-minded, idiots, and imbeciles.
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Time and increasing exposure has shown him to be a loudmouth crybaby, gutless hypocrite, economic buffoon, geopolitical imbecile, and possessed of the emotional fortitude of a ten-year-old.
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The fences that had kept people penned in remained intact, the cross-shaped corridors that separated the audience into quadrants had not been breached, and the boarish imbeciles still held guns and positions of arbitrary power.
Three Days in the Desert
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I learnt that I had been vilified, crucified, and made to look like an imbecile.
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The robust rural Saxon degenerates in the mills to the Leicester stockinger, to the imbecile Manchester spinner, far on the way to be spiders and needles.
X. English Traits. Wealth
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Why not harness people's imbecile sense of patriotism for something useful?
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He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession.
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The 1901 census revealed that more than 13,000 people were living in asylums, officially classed as lunatics or imbeciles.
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What an imbecile that boy is!