How To Use Stupidity In A Sentence

A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity.
Having browsed through this book, you've probably realized that despite the noise, stink, stupidity and self-destructiveness of Planet Earth, it's not a bad place to vacation.
This conundrum poses two questions: First: does collective stupidity actually have a bottom limit or is it some kind of great cosmic suckhole from which reason and common sense simply cannot escape? The End-of-the-World Survival Kit
This is about television and the audience, both of which, on the evidence of these programmes, have descended over the past 40 years into a condition of unutterable stupidity.
Both acts are born of reckless selfishness and crass stupidity and both should be condemned. The Sun

As for the continuity goofs (of which there are many) - they probably would have been more obvious if the stupidity of the story hadn't camouflaged them so effectively.
Is it arrogance, stupidity or coaching that has led to this? Times, Sunday Times
A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity.
(I'm never home when it's on anyway) and setting the DVR to record it for later viewing seems more than I'm willing to do to expose my brain to the neuron-apoptosing and - necrosing antivaccinationist stupidity that Jenny routinely lays down, as lately I've been questioning whether any blog post, no matter how snarky and fun, is worth that kind of self-abuse. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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And this refusal of the author to charge the people with their own stupidity and cupidity, this refusal of the people to own up and take responsibility, is symptomatic.
Stupidity is closer to deliverance than intellect which innovates," is a phrase ascribed to a Mohammedan saint, and do not modern theologians report with enthusiasm, the unlettered condition of Jesus? Cosmic Consciousness
I just don't see the joy of going around spreading your stupidity and immaturity.
What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition. Christopher Hitchens
And you can't rise up every time someone does something stupid and pass a law for the masses to stop the stupidity.
This kind of grotesque stupidity gives foreign aid a bad name. The Sun
I felt an almost irresistible urge to slap myself for the stupidity of my question.
The stupidity that excretes from the mouths of the rightwing underbelly is just astonishing U.S. prepared to push for crippling sanctions, Iran warned
The monkeys were in some enclosure called the skyway or gymnasium or another similar stupidity. Monkey House
There is likewise more or less headache, neuralgia, giddiness, hebetude (state of mild stupidity), dejection, confusion of the senses, skin disease, acne rosacea (scarlet redness of the nose and cheeks), eczema, etc. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis
I thought back to the comment you made to her about "stupidity and slowness."
Anyone one out there who thinks she is a maverick, who thinks she is an outsider to the corruptness of government, who thinks she would make a great president, either suffer from major stupidity, have a sexual obsession or just do not care about our country and only care about their party or movement winning at the expense of everyone else and at the expense of our country. Think Progress » Rep. Blackburn touts Social Security privatization.
After all, white folks are the dominant ones in society and have all of the advantages that have been built up over hundreds of years of racial preference toward whites; so when a group of Native American students name their intermural basketball team "The Fightin 'Whites" in order to point out the stupidity of naming a team "The Fighin 'Reds" white people find it funny and laugh it off because it is not a real threat to whiteness. SeeLight:
Her capacity for stupidity has surprised her in the past, but now it astounds her.
Mary is the love of beauty, or of God; the bramble is the stupidity and grossness of the practical world. Personality in Literature
THE rank stupidity of the legal system in this country beggars belief. The Sun
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity---Martin Luther King Jr, American civil rights activist.
We do not see that, while we still affect by all means a rigid external formality, we may as soon fall again into a gross conforming stupidity, a stark and dead congealment of wood and hay and stubble, forced and frozen together, which is more to the sudden degenerating of a Church than many subdichotomies of petty schisms. Areopagitica
She hammers her facts into our heads with a persistency which is often more than a match for our stupidity. Humanly Speaking
I was weary of the people and what they called their conservatism, which is only a phase of stupidity. Half a Rogue
You would think the miserable little people who foist this politically correct left wing stupidity upon us would considering applying for citizenship elsewhere. The Volokh Conspiracy » Quite a Warning Label
But one point Matt made tonight that I'd like to hear someone refute is the stupidity of canceling public option as a way to get Republicans to vote for the bill. Obama sells out (Jack Bog's Blog)
A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity.
Blessed is the voice that amid dispiritment, stupidity, and contradiction proclaims to us, _Euge! The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop. Laurell K. Hamilton
Well written, possibly, but for me it's my own place to vent my spleen at the general vacuity and stupidity of the world as I see it.
For in the prevalence of sense and spirit over stupidity and malversation, all reasonable men have an interest; and as intellectual beings we feel the air purified by the electric shock, when material force is overthrown by intellectual energies. Representative Men
He said: 'There should be no room for that kind of stupidity and ignorance in sport and society. The Sun
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ingnorance and conscientious stupidity.
THE rank stupidity of the legal system in this country beggars belief. The Sun
But he has allowed his enemies to represent him as a figure of immense gaucherie, cynicism, and stupidity. Mark Miller: Newspaper Swindlers Black and Radler Look Quaint by Today's Standards
A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity.
I guess in hind site I should have wrote a disclaimer about it later, and because I didn’t I claim stupidity. Stephen Barkett
Certain penitents, in a show of incredible remorse (absurd stupidity? faith?), have themselves nailed to crosses and bake under the sun on Good Friday in imitation of Christ. Archive 2003-04-01
He faked stupidity to try to escape punishment for the crime.
Or it might just be plain stupidity. The Sun
Kayla mentally cursed at her stupidity at wasting such a great opportunity.
A moment's reflection will show the stupidity of this argument.
Even the television ads for these magazines celebrate the hopeless stupidity and superficiality of the male.
It has been an exercise in crass populism and political stupidity almost without equal in the Telegraph. Telegraphing
She rebuked herself for her stupidity.
I told him he was the bravest man I'd ever known, leaving out how his braveness usually crossed the line into pigheaded stupidity (one should cut someone a little slack when he's on his deathbed).
You do know you are embarassing yourself and displaying your stupidity again dont you? Think Progress » Florida doctor tells Obama voters they are not welcome: ‘Seek urologic care elsewhere.’
The stupidity of this government and its inability to manage this country effectively and fairly astounds me.
He cringes at his own stupidity for mentioning the residency gig the last time Gwynn had been in town.
It must be the perfect tax since it is a tax on greed and stupidity paid willingly and frequently. Times, Sunday Times
Kira carried on walking, muttering angrily to herself about the absolute stupidity and selfishness of demons and mythical creatures.
Or it might just be plain stupidity. The Sun
Their arrogance and stupidity is also breathtaking. The Sun
A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity.
If it does come, it would be triggered by the naked greed of a nation that is selfish and self-centred to the point of gross stupidity.
Stupidity refuses to listen when wisdom speaks. Intelligence listens attentively when wisdom speaks. Dr T.P.Chia
For this stupidity I received a couple of stitches on my left knee, my shin is a giant scab, and my right thigh looks as if someone took a baseball bat to it. The Things We Do For Fishing...
What a hustler or conman is looking for in a victim, we are very usefully told, is not stupidity but loneliness.
You cannot throw a college graduate of "sports journalism" into a vice presidential debate and expect anything other than a certain poise, a certain "adorableness" as the thing gets tougher, and stupidity as a certainty. Obama Way Ahead In Today's Tracking Polls
The awesome stupidity of the common herd endures and multiplies, in part, because of the bogus trend stories that daily newspapers feed it.
A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity.
Three clowns out of a Fellini film throw their nets over a group of Korean sailors who don't know what to make of so much occidental stupidity.
A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity.
Become inebriated, do not fight it, revel in the sheer joy of unmitigated excess and alcohol induced stupidity.
Angstrom slammed the door to his flat shut, cursing inwardly at his own stupidity.
How is this for sheer stupidity, moral blindness and ingratitude?
Will she catch him in the lobby where he laughs cruelly at her colossal stupidity, causing her to buy a fifth of Jack and go careening ( "careering" for you Brits) around Kelrast Curve? Blogtimore, Hon
The people of Virar-Mira Road blet believe that conducting surveys and useless studies like "Most Influencial Person"; "Most Sexiest Person" is useless and stupidity. 30 lakh people boycott trains on 10th December.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ingnorance and conscientious stupidity.
Willful stupidity makes him absolutely livid.
Of course, this errant stupidity helped force Zapatero's hand and have him bring the troops home.
•On the other hand, it's hard to be hard on Deal when the best ABC can offer in competition is Private Practice (ABC, 9 ET/PT), a show that reached such startling levels of stupidity last week, you wonder whether the network should scrap tonight's episode in favor of an hour-long apology. Critic's Corner Wednesday
Now my stupidity had landed me with more bruises.
_ -- The symptoms are an expression of dullness and stupidity, and from their nature this disease is sometimes known as "dumminess" or Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
His suffering at her hands would have been unbearable had he not so richly deserved it for his crass stupidity and snobbishness.
He's dying for some ice cream but knows it would be the height of stupidity to be seen there.
By his lying, stupidity and intemperance Lee has tarnished the club's image and caused embarrassment to supporters.
It is the kind of stupidity that causes the department to end up making large payments to international funds just to be sure of hitting the target. Times, Sunday Times
Having so much money - and squandering it with such reckless stupidity - should have disqualified her from state aid for life.
Yeah, some of my best friends are morons, yet somehow I still don't seem to tolerate your stupidity.
‘A fag is a cig,’ he rolled his eyes at her stupidity.
And as for this, its simple math, as you guys said: toyota = automatic transmition+ "safety" guard to prevent it from going into neutral while the engine is under load+push-button start (on some models) with "safety" guard preventing one from merely pressing the button and shutting the engine off while in motion+ (engine kill switch * 0) +drive-by-wire accelerator+human error in programming+driver error+ sheer stupidity = death. Fast Lane Daily - Auto News. Fast Cars. Fast and Fresh. Every day.
The planet, which was laid waste some millennia previously thanks to the stupidity of mankind, is now littered with ruins.
His movies seem to be replete with great ideas hampered by wild mood swings of stupidity or silliness.
It was sheer stupidity to refuse at the price they were offering.
In that case -- well, he felt something very like awe before what he called her miraculous stupidity. The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson)
Ryan on Jul 22, 2008 anchorman is easily the most quotable and one of the funniest movies i've seen. im doubtful they will be able to recreate that magic of stupidity from the first one with such a larger audience. it's exactly like #1 said. it looked like the cast was just having fun but with more pressure and higher expectations at the box office, the sequel might lose the fun the first one had. and on an unrelated note, TDK is incredible in IMAX. check it out jim on Jul 23, 2008 Update From Will Ferrell and Adam McKay on Anchorman 2 « FirstShowing.net
As his alkalies give out he succumbs to a blest stupidity. Archive 2009-08-01
Po, between their stupidity and their word Babi = stranger, which they use as a word of greeting -- these Bubis are undoubtedly a very early African race. Travels in West Africa
One of the trolls said something about “activist judges” and I got dizzy from the staggering display of stupidity so close to their beloved ACTIVIST SUPREME COURT deciding corporations have more rights than citizens. Think Progress » DeMint Blocks A Wise Lesbian Latina From Serving On The D.C. Superior Court
She has explored the isles of the ocean for objects of commiseration; but, amazing stupidity! she can gaze without emotion on a multitude of miserable beings at home, large enough to constitute a nation of freemen, whom tyranny has heathenized by law. William Lloyd Garrison
This is all about me baby, and my dream of accumulating a vast fortune by exploiting the stupidity of the reading audience.
Both acts are born of reckless selfishness and crass stupidity and both should be condemned. The Sun
It was all her stupidity! 'he thought, recalling his unloved wife, and he rolled over into his old place at the front part of the sledge. Master and Man
So that part of her closing statements reveals her abiding stupidity and ignorance.
Could it have been greed or simple stupidity? Times, Sunday Times
Some people take it personal when they are called a noob, but I have learned to simply ignore usage of the word noob and just laugh at their utter stupidity and lack of knowledge of a more sophisticated realm, known to some as "real life". Quazen
Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides.
Once the complete stupidity of these subsidies becomes apparent, governments will cease paying them and many wind farms will go bankrupt.
He was vexed with the levity that had made him call his roomful together on so poor a pretext, and yet was vexed with the stupidity that made the witnesses so evidently find the pretext sufficient. The Tragic Muse
Ben is a genetic throwback to Neanderthal man, shunned by family and society for his stupidity and ugliness.
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
She said the offences were the result of ignorance and gross stupidity, and it was an extremely hard lesson which he had now learned.
The sheer stupidity of the bloke is beyond belief. The Sun
We should look at corporate greed, investor stupidity and lack of backbone within national governments as the down side of globalisation.
It was sheer stupidity to refuse at the price they were offering.
The temptation is to wage war on stupidity as if it were a vanquishable object.
A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity.
What with Millipede, Hughes and some woman from Respect, it was fairly easy pickings from the Question Time tree of stupidity last night ... Millipede on Questiontime
There will be those who say central bankers should make investors pay for their stupidity and remain aloof during periods of extreme turbulence. Times, Sunday Times
But it is more tragic when someone dies because they have nowhere to go, than when only their own bullheaded stupidity is to blame.
They are true believers - dogmatists - who view opposition to their views and values as malice, ignorance, or stupidity rather than as a reflection of honest and respectable disagreement.
But rather than seeing what it is we don't like, as the result of our culture and collective stupidity that gave the automobile so much power, we blame our problems on scapegoats.
We feel free to laugh at his anarchic humour because we can feel we're laughing at fascism and the human stupidity that reinforces fascism.
He laughed, covering the sudden feeling of stupidity.
While I do understand how this may have been seen as stupidity or carlessness on his part given the race issue which unfortunately does still exist in some parts of the country … I think it was brave. WordPress.com News
But it is crass stupidity to throw away sheets of roofing materials containing deadly asbestos in an area where many motorists pass by and children play, as some of the Birkshall Lane dumpers have done.
Silly talk is a sign of shallowness. Foolish vanity is a mark of stupidity. Dr T.P.Chia
Many modern directors feel obliged to pose as anti-intellectuals, adopting a facade of stupidity they are unable to carry off with any conviction.
Stupidity, density, foolishness, dullness; no matter how you name it, it does not exist!
It was rank stupidity to drive so fast on an icy road.
The media at that time completely ignored the stupidity of protest marches and bandhs in India.
abysmal stupidity
It's not a reporter's job to protect a star's image, or to protect him from his own stupidity.
Or it might just be plain stupidity. The Sun
For U.S. readers, the galah is a colourful Australian parrot that has become a byword for stupidity because of its suicidal behaviour on some occasions.
If it does come, it would be triggered by the naked greed of a nation that is selfish and self-centred to the point of gross stupidity.
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I have never stopped being angry at hypocrisy and hate and stupidity and cupidity, either.
My sister and I sat amazed at how unamazed he was at his own stupidity.
a piece of moral turpitude -- or at best a sign of lassitude, stupidity, and Toryism; because it means that one's mind is made up and that one has some dull theory which life and the thoughts of others may confirm if they will, but must not modify: from which deadly kind of incrustation may common-sense and human interest deliver us. The Silent Isle
Do you think her beauty could makeup for her stupidity?
Through the stupidity of the look-outs the next thing we knew was that she was off on the starboard quarter, and to windward of us, she having been on the _starboard_ tack all the while! The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter
The Wall Street boys got themselves in a huge mess through their own greed and stupidity.
Even tourists who make an occasional visit recognise the stupidity of the present situation.
Her answer showed the most incredible stupidity.
willful stupidity makes him absolutely livid
Ignoring our mistakes is a sign of immaturity and stupidity. Dr T.P.Chia
I wait for the light to switch on in the cavernous depths of his stupidity.
KUWAIT - Kuwait, calling Saddam Hussein "the father of all stupidity", put its armed forces on alert for any Iraqi reprisal after a U.S. cruise missile strike on an alleged nuclear facility outside Baghdad. ANC Daily News Briefing
Somehow or other even a British citizen with more than the usual stupidity of our race as to foreign languages can make himself understood in the Balkan Peninsula, which is so polyglottic that its inhabitants understand signs very well.) Bulgaria
They no longer protect competitive wages and fair working environments - they inflate wages and protect the insolence and stupidity of their members.
This administration seems to have a really dangerous and disturbing mix of cynicism and stupidity as their driving motive.
She had a face of such immovable stupidity that it amounted to a sort of strange beauty.
Silence is not stupidity . Cleverness is not wisdom . Self - respect is not arrogance . Subservience is not loyalty.
How he took, as his vice president, a Machiavellian monster, and responded -- like LBJ after the Gulf of Tonkin -- with what can only be called the grossest stupidity -- thereby granting Osama bin Laden all he could ever have dreamed of in mounting his 9/ll horror -- is a chapter that was sad for an admirer of the American presidency to have to write. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
There really is no limit to the stupidity of the human race, is there? The Sun
Most of us have no idea of what could happen in our lives if we would overcome our stupidity and dullness.
his cursed stupidity
We consume from necessity, with a self-righteous tinge of regret; others waste because of selfishness and stupidity.
No, the ‘pot, meet kettle’ comment is intended to point up your blatant hypocrisy … not surprising that you fail to understand it, although whether your obtuseness is a result of malice of just plain stupidity is a subject for further debate. Think Progress » Putin Jabs Bush: ‘We Certainly Would Not Want…The Same Kind of Democracy As They Have in Iraq’
Insults to public intelligence and rank stupidity became commonplace.
If she was quite exasperated with the stupidity of Yakub, the dvornik, she pretended to curse him in a phrase of her own invention, a mixture of Hebrew and Russian, which, translated, said, "Mayst thou have gold and silver in thy bosom"; but to the choreman, who was not a linguist, the mongrel phrase conveyed a sense of his delinquency. The Promised Land
A well delineated picture of conflict between widely disparate civilizations, with a reminder that backwardness is not the same as stupidity. Quotes of the Day
In Britain, at least, stupidity seems to be an unstoppable juggernaut.
His villain is the other side of man: stupidity, greed, and the reckless pursuit of power.
Despite its length and stupidity, this is the first entertaining document to be published by the Scottish Executive.
Of course, that was utter stupidity on my part.
From the perspective of Russian strategists, this proposal smacks of incredible stupidity or even treachery.
Certainly anyone with a brain the size of a desicated pea would be able to understand that this Latina Woman has demonstrated beyond any doubt that she would be a far better judge than any of the seven Republican senators who have repetedly demonstrated mindless bias, intolerance, and simple, muddleheaded stupidity this past week. Leahy wants committee confirmation vote next week
I'm definitely not a preachy global warmist type, but to say that global warming isn't happening because there's snow outside is stupidity.
The stupidity of this debate is part of the reason I am a unisexual. Frank slams Obama for 'big mistake' on Defense of Marriage Act (updated)
As for weaselling out of tough situations, stupidity covers well for brazenness.
I settled happily before the blazing fire, musing upon the stupidity of salmon fishing and certain of my friends.
And became immediately obsessed with figuring out whether that zit had been there throughout My Afternoon of Zipless Stupidity or had just sprouted, and, then, whether the presence of a giant zit on the nose of a zipless lecturer might distract from her state of ziplessness. Zipless | Her Bad Mother
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
There should be no room for that kind of stupidity and ignorance in sport. Times, Sunday Times
And stupidity, sheer stupidity, meant that they did not see the trap that they had laid for themselves.
The headline says it all: ‘State stance on evolution a devolution into stupidity’.
Many of their performances testify to organizational stupidity; a few testify only to the perversity of fate.
But we don't need the sanctimonious scolding of a student newspaper editor to tell us voting for a party, any party, is a manifestation of our stupidity and ignorance.
I honestly felt a little stupidity now may save a whole lot of aggravation later.
Does this not show mankind's stupidity and the sheer brainless fanaticism of religion? The Sun
It's the height of stupidity to go out to sea in this bad weather.
Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop. Laurell K. Hamilton
I was livid with anger; desperately trying to maintain my composure in the face of blatant bigotry, and extreme ignorance on the verge of stupidity.
History has opened our eyes to the lust, crime and stupidity that lurked behind the glittering showbiz veneer.
Sadly, human stupidity is indomitable too. Times, Sunday Times
We should not accuse the preformationists of stupidity for placing the right idea into the wrong substance.
A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity.
The worse RBTV has to offer could not match the mind numbing stupidity of this caper.
The police were astonished at the sheer stupidity of drivers in going so fast in the fog.
There really has to be an end to the celebration of stupidity and ignorance. The Sun
It is hard to know what to say about the sheer stupidity of that proposal. Times, Sunday Times
Maybe "Praha" is actually a gleeful bark of triumph over foreigners 'stupidity? Crosscut
If Osama bin laden is alive he must be cracking up over the stupidity being shown by the teapartiers. Think Progress » Once again, conservatives see Muslim conspiracy in an administration logo.
Please, let's not kill the spirit of the season with rank stupidity.
This act of uncharitable stupidity can only be one thing: a way to keep meddlesome lefties and Patagonia-wearin 'bleedin'-hearts from observing what really happens during an emergency and telling anyone about it. We got the last bottle of soco
He told me a story of his childhood and I laughed drunkenly at its childish stupidity.
In other words, relying on the continued stupidity of central bankers is not the most tenable investment thesis.
Ben is a genetic throwback to Neanderthal man, shunned by family and society for his stupidity and ugliness.
And when taken to extremes, such as at these schools in Kirkland and Puyallup, political correctness sinks to the realm of rank stupidity.
Please forgive me for my stupidity.
Good luck is kind and generous to diligence, knowledge and wisdom & idleness, ignorance and stupidity will invite bad luck. Dr T.P.Chia

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