Example Sentences

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“And Fannie and Freddie are stupidly cheap. Asymmetry at its best,” he wrote in a follow-up post.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

He laments that most dogs are “stupidly loved, stupidly hated, acquired without thought, reared and ruled without understanding.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

In none of these cases would I say people are behaving stupidly.

From Salon • Jan. 14, 2025

He stupidly got sent off at the end of the game but even so he is performing above expectation.

From BBC • Dec. 16, 2024

Because it wasn’t as if I’d done anything I should be ashamed about, if you didn’t count stupidly agreeing to a hug, which really, I’d needed to do to escape the band room.

From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee