Sentence examples for like imbecile from inspiring English sources

Ms. Proulx writes exceedingly well about her own family's dark history; she finds that words and phrases like "imbecile," "mulatto," "habitual intemperance" and "her mark" often appear in old documents.

First, he breaks down the etymology of that word and now-innocuous predecessors like "imbecile" to highlight the self-absorbed transience of communal offense, then unfeasibly paints the shooting of congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords as a blow for mental health treatment.

James Holden, writing in 1911, noted that American and British writers, both contemporary and historical, used words like "imbecile", "coward", "unready", and "old woman" to describe Abercrombie.

It was introduced in medical texts more than a century ago, replacing words like "imbecile," "moron" and "idiot" that had developed negative connotations.

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.

Even now Russian doctors treat patients and their relatives like imbeciles.

I hate these Hutus, these Hutus who march blindly, like imbeciles.

"This book contains imagery and words of hideous racial prejudice, where the 'savage natives' look like monkeys and talk like imbeciles," a spokeswoman said.

"If the United States takes the rug out from under us, we would look like imbeciles internally and in the region," Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos said in an interview.

The CRE stated that the album contained "imagery and words of hideous racial prejudice, where the 'savage natives' look like monkeys and talk like imbeciles" Whichever way you look at it, the content of this book is blatantly racist.

My Highlight of the Coming Year Attention Scum is not perhaps the most ingratiating of titles, but here at least is a comedy TV show that does not treat its viewers like imbeciles.