Sentence examples for of imbecile from inspiring English sources

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What kind of imbecile are you?

Meanwhile, the computer has broken down, and emits a shrill bombardment of imbecile questions, endlessly repeated: Which is your favorite tunnel?

It was by now becoming a struggle - what brand of imbecile, having ordered two meals, limbers up with three bread rolls?

Oliver Wendell Holmes, a 19th-century physician and man of letters, once described homeopathy as "a mingled mass of perverse ingenuity, of tinsel erudition, of imbecile credulity and of artful misrepresentation".

He deemed homeopathy, the subject of his third lecture, "the pretended science" that was a "mingled mass of perverse ingenuity, of tinsel erudition, of imbecile credulity, and of artful misrepresentation, too often mingled in practice".

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There were a lot of imbeciles.

The world is full of imbeciles.

"It's just a cacophony of imbeciles".

("Three generations of imbeciles are enough," Justice Holmes wrote).

"Three generations of imbeciles are enough," Oliver Wendell Holmes famously said.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., writing for the eight-to-one majoriThreeoncluded, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough".

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