How to Use stupid in a Sentence
- It was stupid of me to try to hide this from you.
- I'm not stupid enough to fall for that trick.
- Two glasses of wine are enough to make me stupid.
- I was stupid with fatigue.
- Why are you being so stupid?
- He had a stupid expression on his face.
- We were stupid to wait so long before we made a decision.
- She angrily described her boss as a stupid old man.
- I did some pretty stupid things when I was young.
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Do stupid things, win stupid prizes.
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Armando Salguero Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
3 June 2026
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Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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Lisa Rozner,
CBS News,
1 June 2026
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And there's a part of me that felt so stupid.
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Staff Author,
PEOPLE,
27 Apr. 2026
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This sounds very stupid, but there’s an idea in my mind.
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David MacK,
Vulture,
8 Aug. 2025
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These people out here are stupid.
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Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
2 Mar. 2026
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There is a fine line between stupid and clever.
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Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
16 Dec. 2025
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For the record, those students are not stupid.
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Hope Loudon,
The Orlando Sentinel,
17 May 2026
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There’s a fine blue line between stupid and clever.
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Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
31 May 2026
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But most players aren’t stupid.
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Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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People are, in fact, quite stupid much of the time.
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Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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My stupid act had been a useful one, at least to me.
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Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
5 Dec. 2025
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End these stupid, senseless wars.
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Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
11 Mar. 2026
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To blame him for this team’s troubles is/was stupid.
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Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Oct. 2025
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The curds themselves are crispy, but the toast is stupid.
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Jess Fleming,
Twin Cities,
22 Aug. 2025
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Turns out, real life, as so much stupid stuff has come true.
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Michael Schneider,
Variety,
16 June 2026
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Few things can crush a career faster than one stupid or mean tweet.
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Alen Bubich,
Fortune,
26 Oct. 2021
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If men think women are stupid for it, then the joke’s on them.
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Christina Newland,
Vulture,
12 Oct. 2022
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If parents are too stupid to see that, the courts need to step in.
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Joseph Gerth,
The Courier-Journal,
2 Mar. 2018
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The Gucci of pre-rolls is stupid.
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Robert Johnson,
Rolling Stone,
1 May 2026
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For those of you new to the sport, yes, football is a stupid game.
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Scott Ostler,
SFChronicle.com,
20 Sep. 2020
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And then a lot of like dumb jokes, like a lot of like stupid humor.
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Brittany Spanos,
Rolling Stone,
21 Sep. 2022
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My dad has always said the lottery is a tax on the stupid.
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Alex Crippen,
CNBC,
4 Apr. 2026
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Others who wouldn't give their name called the mask mandate stupid or worse.
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Sonia Chopra,
The Enquirer,
8 July 2020
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But the new parking fees at Balboa Park are a whole new level of stupid.
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Inga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Feb. 2026
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Somebody who is dyslexic sometimes has this fear of being perceived as [stupid].
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Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
7 Mar. 2022
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In the final analysis, there are few things in tech that bring out the stupid to quite the degree that Apple does.
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Andy Meek,
BGR,
17 June 2021
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The two camps trade insults regularly on the platform, with people on opposing sides calling each other stupid or worse.
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Rong Xiaoqing,
Curbed,
23 May 2021
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But those options continue to be out of reach for the majority of those who are afflicted with this stupid, infuriating skin condition.
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Megan McIntyre,
refinery29.com,
9 June 2022
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The scale of the headloss was best summed up by Luis Suarez attempting to reason with Messi, before the Argentine did anything on the Suarez scale of stupid.
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Phil Hay,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2026
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