How to Use stupidity in a Sentence

stupidity

noun
  • I was shocked by the stupidity of their decision.
  • Which is much worse than plain old stupidity.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Which is much worse than plain old stupidity.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • So older folks, go ahead and laugh at the stupidity of the young.
    — Charlotte Carroll, SI.com, 13 Jan. 2018
  • But even his best efforts to be a good cop butt up against the wall of his stupidity.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2017
  • But there's no point in going through the stupidity of that idea.
    — Khadrice Rollins, SI.com, 11 June 2019
  • But maybe that’s hubris or stupidity.
    — Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Such stupidity could not have been achieved by one person working on his own.
    — Will Ryans, Field & Stream, 17 Mar. 2020
  • To think this movie is just fantasy is to drown in stupidity.
    — Armond White, National Review, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Stupid, and that stupidity is gonna keep corona around longer than anyone wants.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 15 June 2020
  • That’s when the toxic cocktail of greed, stupidity and hubris takes over.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Why should Curtis have to back down to **maybe** save that city from its own stupidity?
    — Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The loss rests squarely on the shoulders of the head coach and his 4th down stupidity.
    — oregonlive, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Because of stupidity these babies lives were put at risk and one did not survive!
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Heck, maybe its sheer stupidity.
    — Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2025
  • That’s off-the-scale stupidity.
    — Jason Mastrodonato, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
  • But eventually fun gives up the ghost; stupidity wins out and then stomps fun’s skull like an egg.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 31 Jan. 2024
  • He and his great family should not be forced to endure this ‘stupidity’ any longer!
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • He and his great family should not be forced to endure this ‘stupidity’ any longer!
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The investors deserved to lose their shirts; greed and stupidity got the better of them.
    — WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
  • But Cipolla’s stupidity can come from any source.
    — Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The stupidity of that claim is truly shocking, even in a politician.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 6 Feb. 2020
  • That somehow merges in my mind — the brutality of it and the stupidity of it.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2022
  • In a world where so much wealth is concentrated in the hands of so few, that stupidity can be a sort of comfort.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2022
  • And yet many other kinds of stupidity endure.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2025
  • It was meant for a stroke, not stupidity; for Alzheimer’s, not narcissism.
    — Charles Krauthammer, The Mercury News, 18 May 2017
  • Many of those belong to Vaughn — now there is an actor not afraid to lean into stupidity.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug. 2020
  • And leaving all of this in writing in two Telegram groups is pure stupidity.
    — Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Also, forgive my math stupidity, but why scale it to 100 in the first place?
    — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2023
  • And maybe, just maybe, that doesn’t happen without some of the arrogance and stupidity of his younger years.
    — USA Today, 21 Jan. 2021

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