The phrase "rendered stupid" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English. It means to make someone or something appear foolish or unintelligent. It is often used in a figurative sense to describe the effects of a certain action or situation. Example: The complex math problem rendered the students stupid, as they struggled to solve it.
The book industry wants to persuade us, in effect, that once prostrate and sun-oiled in a corner of a foreign land we are rendered too stupid by heat and ultraviolet rays to consume anything but the bestsellers that it forces upon us.
Sensationally unaware, Valere has a manic defensiveness that renders him stupid.
It renders their stupid remarks powerless, as it's clear you refuse to take any of it seriously and are behaving like a broken record.
"Entire objects are rendered useless because a stupid piece of plastic broke," he said.
Her treatment of it feels adolescent, in the way that a teen-ager, discovering how her body functions in relation to another body, becomes overwhelmed, rendered bug-eyed and stupid by the pleasure of it all.
(Taka's translator, after a slight pause, rendered this as "old stupids").
All women know what breasts are for: to feed the newborn and, as Susan Seligson, the author of Stacked observes, "to render men instantly stupid".
Smith himself warned that the division of labour, by routinizing work, would render workers "as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become," and Marx raised the spectre of alienation as the social price paid for subordinating production to the imperatives of profit making.
Not, as is sometimes claimed, because they're making us more stupid, rendering us incapable of concentrating on late-period Henry James (which I'd never been capable of concentrating on anyway), but because our hunger for distraction and diversion is now thoroughly sated by all the football, porn and viral videos out there.
I mean, does anyone else find it ironic that something labeled a "smartphone" is actually rendering us quite stupid?
