imbecile
noun
imbeciles
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pluralof imbecile.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Tungay said he was "treating the French like imbeciles, making all these so-called tough declarations when the record is so catastrophic".
From BBC ● May 5, 2025
Brantley Starr wrote an extravagantly snide and condescending opinion that essentially called government attorneys imbeciles who can’t even read Wikipedia.
From Slate ● May 14, 2020
In an instant, in the eyes of some classmates and rivals alike, they went from promising freshmen to everlasting imbeciles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2020
If I can’t convince these imbeciles of anything, I can at least annoy them, and I think I do a reasonably good job of that.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2019
The grouchy woman began screaming, telling us we were imbeciles, that we were all going to die, so why didn’t we eat well until then?
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
