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the imbecile
noun
A person with limited who can perform and think only like a young child, in medical circles meaning a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal five to sev year-old child.
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At the time Nibali said: "The mother of the imbecile is always pregnant".
And the only thing worse than an eighteen-foot motel roof is the imbecile staring at it.
The robots are named Bob and Hank, but they are based on Norm, the fat, malingering accountant, and Cliff, the imbecile mailman, who were characters on the show..
During her on-again, off-again relationship she wrestled with common sense and good taste, both of which told her to steer clear of the imbecile Michael.
Blair's hubristic view of himself as a moderating influence on the imbecile Bush betrays a spectacular miscalculation of the power dynamics in play.
The robots are named Bob and Hank, but they are based on Norm, the fat, malingering accountant, and Cliff, the imbecile mailman, who were characters on the show...
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Yet in 1908 Debussy wrote to his publisher that he was trying "something different" and that it was "what the imbeciles call Impressionism, just about the least appropriate term possible".
Meanwhile, the imbeciles of the world post a flurry of tweets oblivious to it drowning out more sensible content.
We had very lo-fi cameras, but we used them for what they were, not like the imbeciles who try to make video look like film.
You look at the average person--his or her beliefs, the huge cathedrals built for them, the religions that maintain order, the rubbish that people believe in, the imbeciles who can influence millions, the rover on Mars searching for water--it is very obvious to me that most people are actually mad.
She had been declared a middle-grade moron — a technical designation, based on I.Q., that placed her relatively high on the intelligence scale, above the "idiot" and "imbecile" classifications and just below normal.
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