On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Idiocy. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as retardation or backwardness and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Idiocy in a sentence
Idiocy meaning
- The state or condition of being an idiot; the quality of having an intelligence level far below average.
- Lack of intelligence or sense; extremely foolish behaviour.
- An idiotic act or utterance.
Synonyms of Idiocy
Using Idiocy
- The main meaning on this page is: The state or condition of being an idiot; the quality of having an intelligence level far below average. | Lack of intelligence or sense; extremely foolish behaviour. | An idiotic act or utterance.
- Useful related words include: amentia, retardation, mental retardation, backwardness.
- In the example corpus, idiocy often appears in combinations such as: idiocy and, the idiocy, idiocy of.
Context around Idiocy
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 8 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Idiocy
- In this selection, "idiocy" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, liberal, emotional and bureaucratic stand out and add context to how "idiocy" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and emotional idiocy and display their idiocy go to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "idiocy" sits close to words such as absentees, accruing and aerosmith, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with idiocy
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Who gains from this idiocy. (5 words)
Maine would lose its voice if such idiocy were passed. (10 words)
Leave that sort of idiocy to rappers and pro athletes. (10 words)
A marketplace of ideas may be discordant, chaotic, and include views that are false or terrible, but it keeps a society fresh and dynamic, instead of allowing it to ossify into an inbred oligarchy echoing its own idiocy. (38 words)
However, holding that petrifying thought in my head, I was ambling up the stairs of a primary school, looking at the posters a bunch of kids had been forced by some Goveian idiocy to make about “British values”. (38 words)
And it's really - it's well-meaning idiocy by people who've never had to deal with an actual mental disorder to think that it's - that it can be repaired by something like that. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
And then there’s the aggression against Ukraine, yet another idiocy of an evil empire.
Idaho’s two U.S. Senators, Mike Crapo, and Jim Risch, are working in conjunction with Senator John Thune of South Dakota to block the latest liberal idiocy.
Idiots never let an opportunity to display their idiocy go to waste.
One could say the NDP achievement under Layton aided Harper and his tribe of grifters ran riot and showed their idiocy 24/7.
Who gains from this idiocy.
Her resentment builds against her husband ('s Scoot McNairy), who is the embodiment of weaponized incompetence and emotional idiocy.
I like the show, but if we get a steady dose of this idiocy, I’m out.
Maine would lose its voice if such idiocy were passed.
Stay at home where your idiocy is only likely to hurt yourself.
Then I would have to comment on every idiocy that arises.
Welcome to the dystopian theme park that is San Diego, where the so-called "finest city in America" has devolved into a Kafkaesque nightmare of bureaucratic idiocy and civic overreach.
A few conservative pundits—given the idiocy and ridiculousness of the Impeachment “insaniacs”—believe the president will win a landslide come November.
A marketplace of ideas may be discordant, chaotic, and include views that are false or terrible, but it keeps a society fresh and dynamic, instead of allowing it to ossify into an inbred oligarchy echoing its own idiocy.
And it's really - it's well-meaning idiocy by people who've never had to deal with an actual mental disorder to think that it's - that it can be repaired by something like that.
He also said it was “criminal idiocy” that the ambulance had taken half an hour to arrive.
However, holding that petrifying thought in my head, I was ambling up the stairs of a primary school, looking at the posters a bunch of kids had been forced by some Goveian idiocy to make about “British values”.
I can't imagine the level of self defeating idiocy it would take to throw a shovel at the truck.
It’s not the idiocy of going on TV and saying you don’t care about getting sick.
Leave that sort of idiocy to rappers and pro athletes.
Take that president's incompetence, ignorance, malfeasance, idiocy and criminality and triple it and you might be halfway to Trump.
Common combinations with idiocy
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- idiocy and 7×
- the idiocy 7×
- idiocy of 6×
- this idiocy 5×
- idiocy is 4×
- their idiocy 3×
- idiocy to 3×
- of idiocy 3×
- your idiocy 2×
- idiocy that 2×