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Discover LudwigThe phrase "like an imbecile" is a common expression used in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who is acting foolishly or recklessly. For example: He ran into the street without looking, like an imbecile.
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I know I will be spoken to like an imbecile by a twentysomething bearded hipster, and have to cart dozens of boxes of company-funded wine and beer through the maze of Apple Macs, pool tables and quirky, Lego-filled "interaction spaces" to the kitchen.
Like an imbecile.
(With a sudden wild laugh) Here I am arguing like an imbecile!
"Look who's grinning like an imbecile in the dead heat of noon," the lieutenant said, shaking his head.
If you don't smile like an imbecile when Bill Raftery says "send it in!" then you might not love college basketball.
"A journalist," he added, "can make a Nobel Prize winner look like an imbecile and an imbecile look like Nobel Prize winner".
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"Trump is an imbecile like the fictitious Chauncey Gardiner, supported by a rogues' gallery of cynics hoping to control him," Rosenthal wrote in an emailed response, making reference to the lead character in the 1979 movie Being There.
He is a class A imbecile.
H14, like all computers in the real world, was an imbecile.
I think we can all agree Heene is an imbecile for trying to pull off a stunt like that, but is what he did really that criminal?
"He's an imbecile.
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