idiotic

How to use idiotic in a sentence

• It’s hard to blame the town for sidelining it, because Chowchilla was not just the site of the largest kidnapping for ransom in American history, but also of one of the most idiotic crimes ever visited upon the state of California.

  The ballad of the Chowchilla bus kidnapping | Kaleb Horton | July 23, 2021 | Vox

• Many of the investors talk about how they have created systems to mitigate risk, to the point that Green writes, “Adopting systematic analytical procedures is the sixth strategy in our epic quest to be non-idiotic.”

  The not-so-surprising secrets of wealthy investors | Bethany McLean | May 14, 2021 | Washington Post

• So I came to this realization that I’m going to continue to be in withdrawal every single time until I do something idiotic, because the withdrawal is awful.

  The Opioid Tragedy, Part 2: “It’s Not a Death Sentence” (Ep. 403) | Stephen J. Dubner | January 23, 2020 | Freakonomics

• idiotic jests, usually laid upon the shoulders of "my little boy," or "my youngest girl."

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 62, January 6, 1872 | Various

• idiotic indiscretion; that is how he defined his guilt to himself.

  An Outcast of the Islands | Joseph Conrad