How to Use unintelligent in a Sentence

unintelligent

adjective
  • But the gullible, easily-led and unintelligent — and the media — all fall for the lie.
    — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Nov. 2024
  • The shift from being called fat and unintelligent to the smartest in the family added new pressures.
    — Teshie Ogallo, Parents, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The lesson was not that the models were unintelligent.
    — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
  • To me, though, these men seem crude or unintelligent, entitled and immature.
    — Anna Holmes, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The man seemed to think he was surrounded by incompetent, unintelligent, wastes of space.
    — Josh Davis, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Spliced videos have also portrayed her as stuttering and unintelligent.
    — New York Times, 1 May 2022
  • Even today, there are many settings in which the Christian faith is considered absurd, meant for the weak and unintelligent.
    — Daniel Burke, NPR, 9 May 2025
  • Both of these insults are based on racist stereotypes (the lazy trope and the unintelligent trope) that have been weaponized against Black people throughout history.
    — Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
  • And not because people are unintelligent — quite the opposite.
    — Jj Rosen, Nashville Tennessean, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Still, Hassett called the report biased and unintelligent.
    — Jake Angelo, Fortune, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Second, notice that liberals and Democrats who are Creationists tend to be kind of unintelligent.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2010
  • And self-assured enough to make Melinda feel inane, extraneous, unintelligent.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Just a suggestion that people who tweet or speak profoundly unintelligent and potentially dangerous things should no longer be given a pass.
    — Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Some people use fat to mean unlovable, undesirable, slovenly, unintelligent, lazy.
    — Your Fat Friend, SELF, 28 May 2021
  • In fact, if people don’t merge with computers, humans may soon become an unintelligent species compared to the machine intelligence that will exist.
    — Zoltan Istvan, Newsweek, 9 Mar. 2018
  • But a new study complicates the narrative that only unintelligent people are prejudiced.
    — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 29 July 2017
  • Many who immigrate to the United States have to start their careers in lower-wage jobs, and they are looked down upon and dismissed as unskilled and unintelligent.
    — NBC News, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Offering a reason is ethically unintelligent unless the other person asks for one.
    — Bruce Weinstein, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • These communities were also more likely to believe in outdated stereotypes, like all cannabis users are lazy, dangerous, deviant or unintelligent.
    — Niklas Kouparanis, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2023
  • Part of the goal of minstrel shows was to flatten Black people into unintelligent archetypes whose only value was in their physicality as performers.
    — Tayo Bero, refinery29.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Growing shares in each party describe those in the other party as more closed-minded, dishonest, immoral and unintelligent than other Americans.
    — NBC News, 22 Dec. 2024
  • The stereotypical image of a Neanderthal is that of a brutish, unintelligent and uncivilized caveman.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • As a result, dyslexia is known by enduring and sometimes contradictory myths, like that people who have it are all highly intelligent—or unintelligent and just not willing to admit it.
    — Kira Bindrim, Quartz, 16 May 2022
  • Even otherwise intelligent literary people have a very unintelligent relationship to this part of human life.
    — Hazlitt, 3 Jan. 2023
  • His character — obfuscating, unrepentant, defensive, rather unintelligent — is enough for one exhibit and should be treated in its own right.
    — Andrew Koenig, National Review, 9 Sep. 2017
  • The viewer feels an automatic sense of superiority because the cast appears so unintelligent.
    — Ian Goldstein, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Besides implying that being overweight is spiritually unintelligent (yikes), this book also puts a greater emphasis on mindset than on healthy eating or exercise.
    — Caroline Tew, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2019
  • There’s often depictions of Middle Eastern men as either unintelligent or violent.
    — Morgan Godvin, JSTOR Daily, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Corby’s jail was described in the Australian media as barbaric, the judges depicted as uninterested and unintelligent.
    — Kristen Gelineau, The Seattle Times, 19 May 2017
  • Taerim, who Sanghui describes as second in beauty only to Hae-on, is venomous in her attempts to convince those around her that the dead girl was stuck-up, unintelligent, and never deserved adulation.
    — Arianna Rebolini, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2021

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