How to Use idiocy in a Sentence

idiocy

noun
  • The idiocy of these people knows no bounds.
    — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026
  • But my naivete and idiocy about what this was going to take was staggering to me just six months later.
    — Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 19 Aug. 2025
  • That’s the level of idiocy in the Los Angeles city government.
    — Susan Shelley, Daily News, 13 May 2026
  • Harry and Finis refused to play Jack Donahoe’s game of commenting on every idiocy that came across their desks.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026
  • There’s a heartwarming idiocy to their pursuit, yet what festers underneath is their inability to process grief consciously and the fear that those who deem their existence meaningless might be right.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Gunther and Tig are two billionaire failsons who have wasted countless opportunities and cash chasing the stupidest ideas and who get rewarded over and over again for their idiocy.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Unlike its sibling concepts of dumbness and idiocy, stupidity isn’t really a personality trait.
    — Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Advertisement Aster keenly satirizes Joe’s idiocy in the face of social upheaval through the iconography of Westerns.
    — Robert Daniels, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Telling the story of the clashing egos and raging idiocy of the fictional Spinal Tap, Reiner both directed and starred as the filmmaker-within-the-film Marty DiBergi.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2025

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