How to Use idiotic in a Sentence

idiotic

adjective
  • To them, kicking tires might seem like the most idiotic idea on earth.
    — Dale Buss, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
  • This sudden glory felt to him idiotic and a high price to pay.
    — Longreads, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Look, that one guy saying that one idiotic thing that negates my talent is fine.
    — Amber Ruffin, Vulture, 14 Jan. 2021
  • To do a lot less foolish, thoughtless, stupid, idiotic things.
    — Gwen Faulkenberry, Arkansas Online, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The laundry list of his idiotic rants would fill a book and probably will sometime.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 29 Apr. 2021
  • That idiotic comment should exclude him from being granted a place to air his views.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • But that hasn’t stopped some people from sharing deeply idiotic hot takes on social media.
    — Phillyclout Team, Philly.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Miller’s script is idiotic and silly but does have the kind of slight ring of truth that mockumentaries need to make the genre work.
    — Rick Bentley, star-telegram.com, 5 July 2017
  • The platinum coin is an elegant way out this idiotic legal trap.
    — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Think of the costs of an idiotic war that could have covered universal child care and college tuitions.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 6 May 2026
  • That’s been an idiotic trope for too long — that participating in the business side of it taints you.
    — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026
  • But to say this is an issue that doesn’t affect me is absolutely idiotic.
    — Rene Rodriguez, miamiherald, 31 May 2018
  • When the fury sets in, coach, when a player does something knuckleheaded or idiotic, don't yell at them.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, Indianapolis Star, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Or maybe their voice was drowned out by all of our patriotic, idiotic, saber-rattling nonsense.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 29 May 2020
  • We were just stunned by my idiotic behavior, but that idea that of the constancy was suddenly were wiped.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Anything else would be idiotic.
    — Josh Yohe, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The Civil War has long been over, but the long, slow, idiotic march of white nonsense presses on.
    — Anne Branigin, The Root, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Think of the costs of an idiotic war that could have covered universal childcare and college tuitions.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 May 2026
  • It’s made by this idiotic show runner who keeps calling his show a novel instead of a TV show.
    — Jonny Auping, Longreads, 25 June 2019
  • To undo her dad’s idiotic decisions, Raya has to bring the five pieces of the gem together.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Mumme walked into the locker room with the distinct feeling their strange new strategy was idiotic.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2018
  • For years, there was an idiotic, unspoken rule where there could only be one or two A-list female rappers at a time.
    — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2020
  • Just an idiotic thing to say, but then, Maddon hemorrhages machismo.
    — Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 July 2017
  • Last year and the year before, being a Fire fan was to wallow in the cold mud pits of hell, half blind, wearing an idiotic, hapless grin.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 2017
  • Of course, most fiction is inevitably trivial, banal, worthless, boring, or idiotic, and some is evil.
    — Daniel Drake, The New York Review of Books, 7 Aug. 2021
  • So this horrible, idiotic, disgrace of a human being who is at the end of his wretched life is now pulling out of the Paris climate deal?
    — Thr Staff, Billboard, 1 June 2017
  • There can be no question that Rittenhouse and whatever adults were in charge of him made idiotic decisions.
    — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Then there are those who will see a film like The Tomorrow War, in all its idiotic glory, and give little yelps of joy.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 July 2021
  • There are bad individuals who should not be in this country for sure, but putting everyone into the same basket is idiotic.
    — Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 1 Jan. 2026
  • The newspaper would be thrown way in the next day’s trash and the only proof of the offending idiotic column would be in the memory banks of few readers.
    — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 8 June 2018

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