| 单词 | imbecile |
| 例句 | I need not have worried that I would pour out my troubles like an imbecile, Ranofer thought. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z When agriculture and industry came along people could increasingly rely on the skills of others for survival, and new ‘niches for imbeciles’ were opened up. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “I wonder! You don’t suppose that imbecile will try to turn Major Major out of his trailer, do you?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He looks at me like I’m an imbecile for asking. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Once released, the imbeciles would start breeding again, contaminating and befouling the gene pool. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Her pale, bloated face wore an expression of imbecile happiness. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere between camaraderie and imbecile I tap her beige bare shoulder with the note. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z “Luke was so scared he almost didn’t get himself down from there. Nell, what an imbecile you are.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “Can’t you see he cannot talk well? He is an imbecile! How will he carry a gun?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Three generations of imbeciles is enough,” he wrote. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z We had just started to clean them up when T. Ray burst in, threatening to boil the chick for dinner and fire Rosaleen for being an imbecile. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you can’t see the difference between good, upstanding people and the mentally disturbed, with criminals and imbeciles, you’re not the person I thought you were.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Hush, you imbecile! You have no idea what you’re talking about.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The grouchy woman began screaming, telling us we were imbeciles, that we were all going to die, so why didn’t we eat well until then? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I must not pour it all out like some imbecile and make him think I ask for pity, Amon forbid it! The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Women such as Carrie Buck weren’t genetic imbeciles; they were poor, illiterate, unhealthy, and powerless—victims of their social lot, not of the genetic lottery. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Donovan said, “Well, we accomplished a lot that time. That was real sharp dialogue all the way through. Listen, Dave and that imbecile ‘finger’ are both holding out on us. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “You see, imbecile? The coffin is too wide. I told you. Perhaps you would care to chip away the sides of this passage on the day of the burial!” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Would it compromise her probationary status to strangle this imbecile? Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z It was so simple, I felt like an imbecile for not seeing it sooner. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z That day I thought that they had not only drugged but mindchanged him, leaving him insane or imbecile. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Feeblemindedness,” in 1924, came in three distinct flavors: idiot, moron, and imbecile. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “What do you think Jim Don and Pinkie and all those other imbecile jocks will say?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Do I look like an imbecile to you? The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The Corcorans were thoughtless but this was unconscionable; those monsters, I thought, those imbeciles, they just went off and left it here all by itself. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z At first alienists described this condition as “moral insanity” and those who exhibited the disorder as “moral imbeciles.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They were imbeciles, as well as being the Sassenach, and she herself was a saint She was, she discovered with a change of posture, interested in nothing but her darling boys. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He shook his head, grinning like an imbecile. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I hope the roof of that imbecile little room falls in on them while they are building it. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z He looks at me like I’m an imbecile puppy. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z The farmer waited on rain like an imbecile, the shopkeeper arranged row after row of necessary but dull merchandise. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “We will stay together. Zeus is un imbecile.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z In 1927, the state of Indiana passed a revised version of an earlier law to sterilize “confirmed criminals, idiots, imbeciles and rapists.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Nor was Ms. Buck part of three generations of so-called imbeciles. Review: Adam Cohen’s ‘Imbeciles’, on the Supreme Court and Justice Not for All 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Storey quoted lines from his play — “Idiot! Buffoon! Gormless imbecile!” — with each blow. David Storey, British playwright, novelist who wrote ‘This Sporting Life,’ dies at 83 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Oh, they were imbeciles, falling for a sting operation. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z Up on a hill, looking down at the poor Lapvonians, is Villiam, a cruel and imbecile lord who lives in a landed estate and visits wickedness on the populace to keep them in place. Ottessa Moshfegh’s ‘Lapvona’ Is Gloomy Folk Horror Set Long Ago 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z And, I can tell you, the French don't suffer nouveaux-riches imbeciles easily. Is France in the grip of an existential crisis? 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z To me, she wasn’t an imbecile, but emblematic of these impossible standards, ones that Zellweger bore with painfully apologetic brightness. My favourite film aged 12: Bridget Jones's Diary 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Bell in 1927, called the eugenicist program “better for all the world” because, as he put it, “three generations of imbeciles are enough.” Mental Illness Is All in Your Brain — or Is It? 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z But before he was a candidate, he was just a visible idiot, and Jon Stewart’s version of him as a knuckle-dragging Queens County imbecile has given us tremendous joy over the years. Larry David's Bernie Sanders and America's best political impressions 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Lucy Gardner and Elizabeth Scott-Sanderson arrived at the Normansfield Training Institution with the same diagnosis: both were deemed 'imbeciles' from birth. Family Secrets: Living With Shame from the Victorians to the Present Day by Deborah Cohen – review 2013-01-26T15:00:01Z 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. The Forgotten Lessons of the American Eugenics Movement 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z There are manifestoes, fliers for events and a handbill titled “Funny Guy” in which Picabia identifies himself as “an imbecile, an idiot and a pickpocket.” Francis Picabia, the Playboy Prankster of Moderism 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Holmes famously wrote in the court’s majority decision that “Three generations of imbeciles is enough.” SCOTUS’ shameful eugenics history: “We don’t provide the kind of justice that we claim to in our society” 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z The first time I realized I was using reality TV as a kind of Zen meditation for imbeciles was back when I was planning my wedding. Snooki cures my OCD 2011-05-20T19:01:00Z Imagine each phrase both whispered in passion and spat out in spite: Andrea: You look more stunning than ever for those imbeciles. Isabel Sarli: A Sex Bomb at Lincoln Center 2010-08-07T07:20:00Z But that’s not true, really: Mention the case at a midsize cocktail party of lawyers, and many will come back with “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” Review: Adam Cohen’s ‘Imbeciles’, on the Supreme Court and Justice Not for All 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z I am often criticised for portraying him as an imbecile, but I was actually conveying his childlike side: his letters read like something written by an eight-year-old. How we made: Peter Shaffer and Felicity Kendal on Amadeus 2013-01-14T18:59:01Z Only a politically naive imbecile would go now. Was George Osborne wrong to go off skiing? 2011-01-09T00:06:07Z The lesson of Work Hard No Matter What somehow morphed into a connection between earning money and calling people imbeciles — or pinheads, the O’Reilly term of art. Visions of Snowflakes Dance in Bill O’Reilly’s Head in ‘Old School’ 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z But I will say you know, the Beatles wrote "Helter Skelter" and it's not their fault that some imbecile used it incorrectly. It's "difficult to curb his impulses": "The Patient" star Domnhall Gleeson on a killer in therapy 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z He declared, in reference to Carrie’s family, that “three generations of imbeciles are enough.” The Forgotten Lessons of the American Eugenics Movement 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z I fumed alongside my fellow passengers, cursing man’s general incompetence and specifically the imbecile operating that stupid jet bridge. Security Lines and Flight Delays? This Kid’s in Paradise 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z He had a habit of gyrating and moving his body spasmodically while performing, and even while being promoted as the “Wonder of the World,” many described him as an “idiot,” even an “imbecile.” He Was Born Into Slavery, but Achieved Musical Stardom 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z There’s no point in explaining why Carrey is an imbecile for saying these things – the Internet has done a fine job of this already. Jim Carrey, dangerous idiot: What celebrity anti-vaxxers have in common with climate deniers 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z On bad days, the imbeciles decide they’re bored or confused or disgusted. Perspective | As theaters reopen, a crucial cinematic ingredient is back: The audience 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z The party-animal imbecile persona had been mellowed by age and a metropolitan lifestyle. Once Chris Moyles spoke to millions on the radio. Now he’s struggling for an audience on his own YouTube channel 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z In words Holmes himself gleefully described in a private letter as “brutal,” he concluded, “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” The Many Contradictions of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z He's a con man, a lousy businessman, a liar, and an imbecile. Review: ‘The Confidence Man’ Finds Trump’s Business Image Was Made for TV 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z He peeked through his office window like an imbecile. A Hologram for the King – extract 2013-01-26T21:00:02Z That was when the justice, a supposed champion of individual rights, wrote, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough." 'Pox: An American History': Struggle to eradicate smallpox pitted public health against personal freedom 2011-04-13T21:37:05Z I simply did not think that we would elect someone that incompetent, an imbecile. Our Part in the Darkness 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z He is like Hercule Poirot, berating himself as an imbecile for not spotting in chapter three the vital element that will elude everyone else till the last page. Enoch at 100 edited by Lord Howard of Rising – review 2012-07-12T07:09:21Z They think women are imbeciles and yet there women are, walking around, wearing clothes, holding down jobs, being allowed to vote – driving around in cars, for God's sake! Andy Gray and Richard Keys have finally met their Waterloo. I'm glad 2011-01-30T00:06:24Z I can tolerate her behavior even though she treats me like an imbecile. Sutton Foster Talks About Why 'Younger' Made Her Feel Like She Was 'Cheating' 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z It shows how easily idiots can thrive in a broken system, such as gangling imbecile Jonah Ryan, most notably through his wood-chopping campaign commercial. Hail to the Veep: the best and most brutal comedy of the century 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Dawn French's Rev Geraldine works in a quiet backwater, among a collection of borderline imbeciles. Rev: preaching to the converted 2011-04-05T10:58:25Z 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. Books of The Times: A Novelist Wills Her Dream Home Into Being 2011-01-04T17:12:56Z Hitler would refer to him in retrospect as “an imbecile.” Books of The Times: Perched in Berlin With Hitler Rising 2011-05-19T21:00:11Z "Three generations of imbeciles are enough," Holmes wrote in an opinion cited by the Nazis a decade later. 'The Case Against the Supreme Court' pushes for reforms 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z The penultimate paragraph concludes with one of the most notorious epigrams of American law: “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” Review: Adam Cohen’s ‘Imbeciles’, on the Supreme Court and Justice Not for All 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z I am not going to treat you like imbeciles or wayward children. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Hi, 2016 Trump voters. We have to talk. 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Rather than protect individual women, apostates, intellectuals, cartoonists, novelists, and true liberals from the intolerance of religious imbeciles, they protect theocrats from criticism. Sam Harris talks Islam, ISIS, atheism, GOP madness: “We are confronting people, in dozens of countries, who despise more or less everything that we value” 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Mr. Fraser’s character is a confused jumble of attributes — he seems both mature and a borderline imbecile. Movie Review: ‘HairBrained’ Puts Brendan Fraser Back in School 2014-02-28T00:40:05Z While I enjoy mocking Vasquez, he hasn't really been presented as a complete imbecile until recently, and I'm not sure I really buy his rationale for calling Raylan in. 'Justified' 'Fugitive Number One' recap: blood and betrayal 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z “That was the message that the universe was shouting at us loud and clear. And it would’ve taken an imbecile to ignore that market message,” Needham said. ‘Reading the story today makes me cringe’: Female stars and the media machine of the early 2000s 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z But dream is all it gonna be, No thanks to imbecile like me. Style Invitational: The an(n)als of civilization 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Those are precisely the sort of stone-cold imbeciles who would rather believe the most far-fetched nonsense about our history than study and learn the truth of it. Bro, say can you see? "America: The Motion Picture" shows we're not just dumb, we're drawn that way 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z A third had "traitor" and "imbecile" shouted at her as she came to comfort families evacuated during the horror. Whatever unfolds in Gaza war, judgment day looms for Netanyahu 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Tuberville is an imbecile who has no idea what he's doing but clearly loves the attention. Tuberville proves Republicans picks MAGA over the military 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z Priests from poor districts in Buenos Aires held a mass on Tuesday to defend Argentine Pope Francis after radical right-wing presidential candidate Javier Milei denounced him as an "imbecile" and "representative of evil". Post-Labor Day corporate debt spree revives U.S. Treasury selloff 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Priests from poor districts in Buenos Aires held a mass on Tuesday to defend Argentine Pope Francis after radical right-wing presidential candidate Javier Milei denounced him as an "imbecile" and "representative of evil". Oil prices settle at 10-month high as Saudi, Russia extend supply cuts 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Priests from poor districts in Buenos Aires held a mass on Tuesday to defend Argentine Pope Francis after radical right-wing presidential candidate Javier Milei denounced him as an "imbecile" and "representative of evil". NY Fed data shows a decline in neutral rate during second quarter 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Priests from poor districts in Buenos Aires held a mass on Tuesday to defend Argentine Pope Francis after radical right-wing presidential candidate Javier Milei denounced him as an "imbecile" and "representative of evil". US dollar rises on global growth worries; Aussie down 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Priests from poor districts in Buenos Aires held a mass on Tuesday to defend Argentine Pope Francis after radical right-wing presidential candidate Javier Milei denounced him as an "imbecile" and "representative of evil". SoftBank's Arm starts IPO roadshow in Baltimore to court T Rowe Price 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Priests from poor districts in Buenos Aires held a mass on Tuesday to defend Argentine Pope Francis after radical right-wing presidential candidate Javier Milei denounced him as an "imbecile" and "representative of evil". Mexico's core inflation to fall to lowest level since late 2021 in August 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Trump himself is leaning hard into the argument that he's too big of an imbecile to take seriously as a threat. Not just the coup: Trump used the "aspirational" defense in the E. Jean Carroll rape lawsuit 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z "This f**king imbecile @greggutfeld is beyond absurd. He argues that Jews honed skills in the Holocaust that allowed some to survive," Trump impeachment whistleblower Alexander Vindman, who is also Jewish, added on Monday night. “Any other place, his career would be over”: Fox colleagues disgusted at Gutfeld’s "useful" Jews jab 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z It's hard to understand how they square his claims to be intelligent enough to run the free world with his simultaneous claims to be this big an imbecile. Trump goes with the "too stupid to know better" defense 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z The imbecile who wrote this entry should be hunted down and shot.” Man who threatened Merriam-Webster over gender updated definitions sentenced to prison 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z "They were called lunatics and imbeciles, idiots. The terms dementia or schizophrenia weren't known. Psychiatry was an infant science" The asylum patients being given their stories back 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z The opposition Congress Party condemned the move against the BBC, with one member of Parliament calling it “imbecile, childish & beyond even silly,” in a tweet. Indian government raids BBC offices in wake of documentary critical of Modi 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Ms. Lake has lacerated election officials as “imbeciles” after a hiccup with voting machines in Maricopa County. Democratic Hopes Rise on Senate Control as Two States Count Votes 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z She said she resented its members’ being depicted as “nostalgic imbeciles,” because she had worked hard to purge Fascists and build a new history. Giorgia Meloni May Lead Italy, and Europe Is Worried 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z "To those who spot them, I offer dinner," he tweeted, describing them as "overbearing imbeciles". Surfers on Venice's Grand Canal invoke mayor's wrath 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z “You are an idiot and an imbecile,” Zawahiri said at one point in his speech, referring to a Syrian Islamist leader who was once an al-Qaeda devotee. Zawahiri’s legacy: Querulous bands of militants and a chance for rebirth 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Comments on the Davison ad on Twitter ranged from “Is this the best political ad ever?” to “Here’s the Klan and they vote for Republicans, you absolute imbecile.” Arizona candidate Jerone Davison wards off KKK with AR-15 in viral campaign ad 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z “The imbecile who wrote this entry should be hunted down and shot.” Man Charged With Threatening Merriam-Webster Over Gender Definitions 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z The imbecile who wrote this entry should be hunted down and shot,” prosecutors said. O.C. man accused of anti-LGBTQ threats to bomb Merriam-Webster over definition of 'girl' 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z They used to try to stratify people based on IQ score using really bigoted and ableist terms, like "moron and imbecile." "Our brain is not a slot machine," so quit trying to hack it 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z In an 8-to-1 decision, the Supreme Court agreed, with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously declaring, “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” Britney Spears, Carrie Buck and the awful history of controlling ‘unfit’ women 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Bell, the 1927 opinion in which he upheld Virginia’s forced sterilization law with the notorious comment, “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” Column: Here's why Biden's vaccine mandate is right — and should stand up to legal challenges 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z He pointed to unvaccinated people who are “clogging” up overwhelmed hospitals, calling them “imbeciles” and “nut jobs” and suggesting that doctors and nurses not treat those who have not taken a coronavirus vaccine. Howard Stern blasts unvaccinated Americans, casting vaccine mandate as ‘freedom to live’ 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Stern then proceeded to criticize “imbeciles” who have willingly refrained from getting vaccinated against COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, including those who later died from it. Howard Stern calls for mandatory vaccines, says it’s ‘good’ anti-vax radio host died of COVID-19 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Killed by a suicide imbecile wearing a vest loaded with 25 pounds of high explosives and shrapnel, they were trying to help Afghans escape the country that we built and then donated to the Taliban. Opinion | The departures from Afghanistan and Vietnam are not the same. But they raise the same haunting question. 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z When Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote "Three generations of imbeciles are enough" in a Supreme Court ruling upholding Virginia's involuntary sterilization law, he was describing a poor White woman with no mental impairment. What the media gets wrong about red-state vaccine hesitancy 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z “Putin and the Kremlin consider Russian citizens a bunch of manipulated imbeciles,” he tweeted. Russia cracks down on Navalny protests, locking down city centers and arresting thousands 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z And the movement of out-and-out imbeciles, Americans who pride themselves on believing hoaxes while condemning expertise, only continues to grow. Don't look past Trump's coup attempt: This is a dark moment in American history 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z "It took me three hours to get to where I am this morning, because the Mayor of London is an imbecile," he says with his usual tact. The Grand Tour stars on pirate treasure, cycle lanes and electric cars 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z State TV once aired a programme titled "The Extra Quality Favourite Item Threatening Life" in which women scolded male smokers, calling them "imbeciles who upset their surroundings". How North Korea is trying to tackle smoking 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Children, often minorities, who were deemed troubled or labeled with the term “imbeciles” were confined to institutions. Trump's touting of 'racehorse theory' tied to eugenics and Nazis alarms Jewish leaders 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z The confrontation ended with the imbecile's adult son, visibly embarrassed, lifting him up from behind and carrying him out the front door. Whose alpha male is this? Donald Trump and America's sad, failed model of masculinity 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z President Vladimir Putin has mused that he is "under the control of American special services", as well as describing him as "an imbecile with obvious problems". The 'real' threat to Russia’s former doping mastermind 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Bell decision, which allowed doctors to sterilize “mental defectives” without their consent because, as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously wrote, “three generations of imbeciles are enough.” ‘Nothing About Us Without Us’: 16 Moments in the Fight for Disability Rights 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z “The population of imbeciles right now is so ridiculous.” Dan Bongino on backlash to tweet by slain cop's daughter: 'We live in the dumbest of times' 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z Bell, in which Holmes upheld Virginia’s forced sterilization law by referring to the Buck family, which was Black, as a hive of “degenerate offspring” and declaring, “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” Column: Caltech faces reckoning over its links to eugenics and sterilization movement 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Language includes frequent use of insults like “imbecile,” “moron,” “stupid,” “suck-up,” and “pinhead,” and there are some comments along the lines of “she’s pretty hot.” What to watch with your kids: ‘Scoob!,’ ‘Never Have I Ever’ and more 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z He is a fool, an irresolute, vacillating imbecile. Opinion | ‘I believe I am treated worse,’ Trump says. As if. 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Alexandre Vincendet, the local mayor, described the youths as “cretins, idiots and imbeciles”, adding: “They wouldn’t even know where to find Villeneuve-la-Garenne on a map … it’s just an excuse to smash things up.” Disruption on streets of France as lockdown tensions rise 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z “Now everyone listening, imagine that's your job, just for a second, please to all the imbeciles who thought it would be a great idea to attack this woman.” Dan Bongino on backlash to tweet by slain cop's daughter: 'We live in the dumbest of times' 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z Last month, she issued a statement under her own name attacking South Korea’s presidential office and calling it an “imbecile.” Speculation Over Kim Jong-un’s Health Is Fueled by North Korea’s Own Secrecy 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z She traveled as North Korea's government envoy for the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea, and she again dove again into foreign policy a statement calling the South Korean president an "imbecile." Is North Korea dictator Kim Jong Un actually in "grave danger after surgery"? 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z “Well no, you’re an imbecile, and especially a threat to yourself.” Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z One French minister was furious: “Some consider they’re little heroes when they break the rules. Well, no. You’re an imbecile, and especially a threat to yourself.” What you need to know today about the virus outbreak 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z “Well, no. You’re an imbecile, and especially a threat to yourself.” Virus rebels from France to Florida flout lockdown practices 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z He called those who ignored the government’s rules “imbeciles.” Much of Europe is now on lockdown. But can authorities actually enforce those rules? 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z The interior minister, Christophe Castaner, described people who ignored the rules, which police are enforcing with fines of €135, as “imbeciles”. France may refuse entry to Britons if no strict lockdown is imposed in UK 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z "Some people think they're some kind of modern-day hero when they break the rules - but they're imbeciles, and a danger to themselves," he said. Europe already looking to extend virus lockdowns 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z In an instant, in the eyes of some classmates and rivals alike, they went from promising freshmen to everlasting imbeciles. UCLA's Jalen Hill and Cody Riley find redemption after regrettable China incident 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z “So an imbecile president who’s only interested in his own self-preservation is turning the justice department into a political weapon for his own benefit,” Meyers concluded. Trevor Noah: Bloomberg talked about black people 'like they're crime piñatas' 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Thirty years later, another column in the census asked whether anyone was blind, deaf and dumb, imbecile or idiot, or a lunatic. Seven things you need to know about the census 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z The word derives from the Middle English word “doten,” which means “to dote,” and initially meant “imbecile” when it was first used in the 14th century, the dictionary said. From 'Rocketman' to 'dotard,' Trump and North Korea's history of trading insults 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Special Olympics is a movement for and of people with intellectual differences, who as recently as the 20th century were medically referred to as “idiots,” imbeciles” and “morons.” Opinion | To heal our divisions, listen to people with intellectual disabilities 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z Short, on NBC, said he was “sorry she’s hurting” but noted that the late congressman, soon before he died, had referred to Trump as an “imbecile.” Trump impeachment trial: Squaring off in the Senate 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z With the tape was a letter calling him an “abnormal moral imbecile” and encouraging him to commit suicide before “your filthy, abnormal, fraudulent self is bared to the nation.” Colin Kaepernick is the black Grinch for those who dream of a white America 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z “I think these people who do this are well-organized, even if they are imbeciles,” he said. Jewish Graves Desecrated in Historic French Cemetery 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z And lest you think that this is the invention of one or two deranged imbeciles in Ohio’s legislature, the bill has 19 co-sponsors – one-fifth of Ohio’s house. The Ohio abortion bill is a terrifying sign of things to come | Jill Filipovic 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z It added: "Abe may see what a real ballistic missile is in the not distant future and under his nose. Abe is none other than a perfect imbecile and a political dwarf." N Korea threatens Japan with 'real missile' 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z If I can’t convince these imbeciles of anything, I can at least annoy them, and I think I do a reasonably good job of that.” John Simon, theater and film critic with an artful and vicious pen, dies at 94 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z “You get the professional haters and imbeciles, but at the same time in Italy there is a much larger number of people who are in solidarity with Segre.” Italian Holocaust survivor given police escort after far-right threats 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z To be able to be honest enough to look like an imbecile when proven wrong or shown a perspective that you didn’t realize. David Chang doesn't want your compliments 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z "These imbeciles have resorted to their ignorantly destructive ways, trying to undermine a much needed infrastructural project to improve the economic prospects of Barbuda," he wrote. ‘Why I don't want to own the land my business is built on’ 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z “An imbecile who is pretending he is broadcasting a soccer match.” Spain’s Most Celebrated Writer Believes the Fascist Past Is Still Present 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Like Hollywood, Washington is packed with moral imbeciles waiting for social media feedback to tell them what they believe. Catastrophic government, indeed 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Or was he just an imbecile and Len had failed to notice? “She Said He Said” 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z “Prove it, you imbeciles! Find something!” he snapped. What Led Peru’s Former President to Take His Own Life? 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z The line for which the Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., is best known is also his ugliest: “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” How Fetal Personhood Emerged as the Next Stage of the Abortion Wars 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z “There is an imbecile downstairs,” Marías said shortly after opening the door to me. Spain’s Most Celebrated Writer Believes the Fascist Past Is Still Present 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z On 15 May tens of thousands of demonstrators staged nationwide protests against the cuts only to be belittled by Bolsonaro as “useful idiots” and “imbeciles”. Students protest across Brazil over Jair Bolsonaro's sweeping cuts to education 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z The decision is known for Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s statement: “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” Supreme Court compromise on Indiana abortion law keeps issue off its docket 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z Convinced that “the great writers were as dumb as mules,” and that, in the political sphere, “imbeciles worship cretins,” Pierre-Paul has no option but to work as a delivery guy. A Live-Action “Aladdin” Falls Short of Its Animated Predecessor 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z “What he uttered is just sophism of an imbecile bereft of elementary quality as a human being, let alone a politician,” the North Korean news agency said. From Japan, Trump doubles down on Biden criticism and embrace of... 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z He was "an imbecile bereft of elementary quality as a human being, let alone a politician", the commentary said, adding that he was "a fool of low IQ". Why N Korea called Biden an 'imbecile' 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Pyongyang labels the presidential candidate a “fool of low IQ” and an “imbecile bereft of elementary quality as a human being” after he recently called Kim Jong Un a tyrant. 10 Things to Know for Today 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z But on reflection, maybe the genesis of Willett’s sentiment – “baying mob of imbeciles” and all – wasn’t that far wide of the mark. Bethpage’s baying, boorish galleries should have no place in golf 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Yesterday, for example, Bolsonaro told reporters that the protesters were “useful idiots” and “imbeciles” who were being manipulated by a “smarthead minority” that controls federal universities. In Brazil, 'useful idiots' protest cuts to research and education 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Tempting as it is to shrug off a lie like this as the incoherent but ultimately unimportant ramblings of an imbecile, the sad truth is that this serious stuff. Do windmills cause cancer? It's important to resist Trump's lies — even the dumbest ones 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z There are imbeciles at football games like there are in everyday life. Leonardo Bonucci makes it hard to feel any optimism for Italian football | Paolo Bandini 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z The Press Herald reported that LePage called the judge an “imbecile” for claiming he “could buy the president so cheap.” Former Maine Gov. Paul LePage spent $22,000 of taxpayer money at Trump's D.C. hotel 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z I have said before and will say again that we are becoming a culture of moral imbeciles. Second accuser claims rape by Virginia Lt. Gov. 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Wider reporting of the incident has created a vague, semi-processed picture of just another footballing imbecile waving his underserved millions in the face of consumptive nurses everywhere. Can Franck Ribéry not have his gold-leaf steak and eat it? | Barney Ronay 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z Yet, he lied & wrote I was “dropped” and liberal imbeciles immediately ran with it. NRATV slams ‘dishonest’ media amid reports Dan Bongino dropped by network 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Maradona struggled with Catalan culture, struggled with his “imbecile” of a chairman, who constantly briefed against him. Ballad of Ousmane Dembélé: £100m victim of football’s fat greasy hands | Barney Ronay 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z He said he would have gladly left the rose that he had brought with him in the car if it weren’t for “those imbeciles.” Salvini Seizes on 2nd Italian Teenager’s Death to Push Immigration Issue 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z People no longer talk to each other, they talk at each other; if others have a different opinion, they must be imbeciles. Perspective | Where did it all go wrong? (And a far-fetched solution to turn it around.) 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z She was tired of being written off as “imbecile, idiotic and Islamophobic” for casting a Trump vote in 2016, she said. American paradox: Voters want the anger to stop but can’t stop being angry 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z She adds, “I would look like the biggest imbecile alive for supporting a man who used that word.” Trump Used Racial Slur During ‘Celebrity Apprentice,’ Former White House Aide Says 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Recalling that she appeared on the first season, Manigault Newman reflects: “I would look like the biggest imbecile alive for supporting a man who used that word.” Omarosa: Trump is a racist who uses N-word – and says there's tape to prove it 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z It also required that immigrants pass a literacy test, and barred “undesirables”, a category that included “idiots, imbeciles, epileptics…polygamists and anarchists”. America’s immigration system is broken 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z By acting like an unpredictable imbecile he had made his point: He's got the biggest swinging hands in the free world and there's nothing these pipsqueak allies can do about it. Donald Trump threatens Theresa May; Republicans stage Peter Strzok circus: A day of total madness 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z It should be fun — if you don’t mind being taken for an imbecile. Perspective | Tiger vs. Phil: A friendly match with the warmth of a boardroom 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z Our closest allies think Trump is an imbecile. Make Fourth of July a Trump-free day 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z And for all those respected generals, think twice about what you’ve already put our troops through and what you might be sending them into over some imbecile’s tweets. Trading Snarl for Smile, Pompeo Makes Case to Lead State Dept. 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z He called Messitte an imbecile four times in his brief comments. Governor: Judge who allowed Trump lawsuit is an ‘imbecile’ 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z “Before, there were only imbeciles. And all the reforms they are accomplishing are necessarily the best.” Emmanuel Macron Becomes France’s Answer to Strongman Populism 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Shkreli seemed delighted with the attention and began a high-profile campaign trolling his critics, refusing to speak to the congressional committee that summoned him to testify against them while calling lawmakers “imbeciles” on Twitter. Martin Shkreli jailed: 'Pharma Bro' sentenced to seven years for fraud 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Shkreli declined to testify but characteristically found time to tweet that members of Congress were “imbeciles”. Martin Shkreli's arrogance may cost 'Pharma Bro' years behind bars 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z But tomorrow is Saturday and I can't wait to see which group of potential imbeciles can out-grunt another group of future suicides. Hits to the Head May Result in Immediate Brain Damage 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z The sun rises in the East and sets in the West and LaVar Ball will always be a loud- mouthed imbecile. Letters: Great season, bad ending for the Rams – LA Times 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z The typed letter condemned King as “a colossal fraud . . . and a dissolute, abnormal moral imbecile.” ‘You are done’: A secret letter to Martin Luther King Jr. sheds light on FBI’s malice 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z “They may be imbeciles but they are good sons to their families, some of them have jobs … their reputation has been destroyed.” Anger over treatment of alleged victim at Pamplona gang-rape trial 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z The noxious decision, in which Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., infamously wrote that "Three generations of imbeciles are enough," endorsed the cleansing of the so-called "feeble-minded" from the gene pool. Why are scientists filing lawsuits against their critics? 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z Hours earlier, Girardi said Chapman had apologized to him for accidentally “liking” a user’s comment on Instagram calling the New York manager an “imbecile” late Friday night. Girardi clears air with Chapman, booed before Game 3 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z Its US brethren, Merriam-Webster, further clarifies that the word initially meant "imbecile", and stems from the Middle English word "doten" which means "to dote". 'Dotard' Trump? The story of 'rocket man' Kim's insult 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z The issue drew more visceral reaction through Sydney right-wing radio talkback host Ray Hadley, who demanded an inquiry from the New South Wales state government, and called the teachers organising the play "imbeciles". How a school play about Aboriginal history set off a row - BBC News 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z He was tireless, demanding and insecure — in his own words “a neurotic, temperamental imbecile.” Jerry Lewis, comedy king and master of slapstick, dies at 91 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z And while your first instinct — unlike the moral imbecile in the White House — is condemnation, that’s the easy part. White supremacists at the table 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Afterward on Twitter, he called the lawmakers “imbeciles.” ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli trial hits speed bump: Finding jurors who don’t already dislike him 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z But since then, he’s gone online to call members of Congress “imbeciles” and mock a freelance journalist in a way that got him kicked off of Twitter. The Latest: Trial begins for ‘Pharma Bro’ Shkreli 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z But after testifying, he tweeted: “Hard to accept that these imbeciles represent the people in our government.” Scenes From Martin Shkreli’s Journey to Federal Court 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Both accused the other of taking French people for imbeciles. French election: Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron trade insults in TV debate 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z “Don’t be upset with Jeffrey Lord, who is a proven imbecile. Be angry with CNN for casting him in that role,” wrote Marlow Stern, senior entertainment editor at the Daily Beast. CNN pundit Jeffrey Lord is slammed after calling Trump 'the Martin Luther King of healthcare' 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z But remember that social progress means winning over voters in flyover country, and that it’s difficult to recruit voters whom you’re simultaneously castigating as despicable, bigoted imbeciles. We must win over, not deride, Trump voters 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z But since then, he’s gone online to call members of Congress “imbeciles” and mock a freelance journalist in a way that got him kicked off of Twitter. The Latest: Trial begins for ‘Pharma Bro’ Shkreli 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z “But remember that social progress means winning over voters in flyover country, and that it’s difficult to recruit voters whom you’re simultaneously castigating as despicable, bigoted imbeciles.” Inside the Beltway: Democrats eager to woo Trump voters 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Many will have seen the lay political analyst/imbecile who was filmed outside the Emirates last week offering his considered verdict on Wenger’s place in the pantheon of global monsters. If Arsène Wenger stays we can expect a comedy of analogy errors | Marina Hyde 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z But the fact that Trump would eventually wage a Twitter assault against “S.N.L.” — particularly over Alec Baldwin’s portrayal of him as a menacing, bumbling imbecile — would itself suggest that the show struck the right balance. Al Franken Faces Donald Trump and the Next Four Years 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z His Ryder Cup online preview in September – which branded US fans “pudgy, unwashed cretins” and a “baying mob of imbeciles” – didn’t go down so well. The alternative 2016 sports awards: the year’s best quotes, gaffes and meltdowns 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z “Shut up, you imbecile!” a soldier yelled at him. ‘They Will Have to Die Now’ 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z What imbecile thought it was a good idea to disallow early voting or voting by mail? ‘I Feel Very Happy to Be a Part of This’: New Yorkers Flock to the Polls 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Yes, we were grinning like imbeciles the whole time. Actev Motors’ Arrow: The Smart Electric Go-Kart You Wish You’d Had as a Child 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z While you may think you know, you actually sound like an imbecile to anyone who has looked even slightly beyond their own beliefs with any kind of tolerance or open mind. Sufi Sect of Islam Draws ‘Spiritual Vagabonds’ in New York 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z "These were the only imbeciles to which I was referring." Danny Willett's brother responds to Ryder Cup backlash: "Some Americans proved me right" - Golf Digest 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Spall’s Irving comes across more like a disturbed imbecile than an opponent worth taking seriously. ‘Denial’: Fact-based courtroom drama is missing one element — feeling 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Willett's brother had described the fans as a "baying mob of imbeciles". Ryder Cup 2016: Danny Willett defends brother's comments 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Before the competition, Willett’s brother, a schoolteacher, published a column for a golf magazine in Britain poking fun at American golf fans, calling them, among other things, “a baying mob of imbeciles.” Arnold Palmer’s Presence Is Felt at the Opening of Ryder Cup 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z In the piece, he calls American golfing fans a “baying mob of imbeciles”, and urges the European team to “smash the obnoxious dads, with their shiny teeth, Lego man hair, medicated ex-wives, and resentful children”. British Ryder Cup Golfer Apologises Over Anti-American Jibes 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z "The Americans need their baying mob of imbeciles to caress their egos every step of the way," he wrote. Ryder Cup 2016: Danny Willett upset by brother's US imbecile rant 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z “My life has been leading to this …” I thought, like an imbecile. How alopecia helped me reach true enlightenment | Arnab Chanda 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z He is said to have referred to the president as an "imbecile". Africa cracks down on social media - BBC News 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Making the comments after a meeting in Moscow, Berlusconi said that those who disagreed with his description were humourless “imbeciles”, adding: “How can you take such a great compliment negatively?” Undiplomatic language: five of the worst geopolitical insults 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Specifically, a couple of imbeciles open up a barrel of toxic waste hidden by the Army in the basement of a medical supply warehouse and unleash a plague of brain-eating ghouls upon a small town. Blu-ray review: ‘The Return of the Living Dead: Collector’s Edition’ 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Instead he laughed, twirled a pencil and yawned, and later called the lawmakers "imbeciles" on Twitter. Singers vie to play Shkreli, America's 'most-hated man', in musical 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Last year, he opened the "Dismaland" theme park at the English seaside, where staff carried balloons proclaiming "I'm an imbecile" and model boats full of refugees floated in a pond. Private collectors display their Banksy art in Rome 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Mr Hilton, who is backing a vote to leave the EU, told Today both sides were "treating people like imbeciles". David Cameron claims holidays would cost more outside EU - BBC News 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z “Most of the stuff is very middle of the road and only there to comfort people and companies. It treats consumers like stupid imbeciles and fails to open up the dialogue.” These Photo Fails Are Actually Perfect 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z The authorities were at a loss to explain his actions, although one US official reportedly told journalists: "Clearly, this man is an imbecile." 13 of the world's most stupid criminals - BBC News 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z A New York Times reviewer recently called it “one of the ugliest cases” in the court’s history and cited Holmes’s notorious declaration that “three generations of imbeciles are enough.” By retiring a seal, Harvard wages war on the dead — but to what end? 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, in writing the decision, penned the now-famous phrase “three generations of imbeciles are enough”, referring to Buck, her daughter and her mother. History of science: When eugenics became law : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Last Thursday, Shkreli invoked his constitutional right against self-incrimination at a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on drug pricing, and later tweeted that lawmakers in Congress were imbeciles. Shkreli is sued over his $2 million Wu-Tang Clan album 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z “Hard to accept that these imbeciles represent the people in our government,” Mr. Shkreli said on Twitter, just minutes after he left the hearing. Martin Shkreli, ‘pharma bro,’ rebuffs Congress through silence 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Hard to accept that these imbeciles represent the people in our government. ‘Pharma bro’ Shkreli stays silent before Congress, calls lawmakers ‘imbeciles’ in tweet 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z He did tweet, however, that lawmakers are “imbeciles.” Martin Shkreli isn't alone in ripping off patients with crazy drug prices 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Shkreli appeared to smirk throughout his hourlong appearance, and moments after it ended, insulting tweets began to appear under his official Twitter account calling the lawmakers "imbeciles." Smirking pharma CEO Martin Shkreli leaves lawmakers infuriated after hourlong showing 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Shkreli appeared to smirk throughout his hour-long appearance, and moments afterward, insulting tweets began to appear under his official account calling the lawmakers “imbeciles.” Pharma CEO Shkreli takes 5th amendment, still infuriates 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Shkreli appeared to smirk throughout his hour-long appearance, and moments afterward, insulting tweets began to appear under his official account calling the lawmakers "imbeciles." Pharmaceutical chief Martin Shkreli refused to testify in an appearance before U.S. lawmakers who excoriated him over severe hikes for a drug sold by a company that he acquired 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z “Hard to accept that these imbeciles represent the people in our government,” he wrote. Pharma 'Bad Boy' Martin Shkreli Mocks Congress 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z After the hearing Mr Shkreli returned to Twitter to call the members of Congress "imbeciles". Martin Shkreli, ex-drug CEO, mocks Congress amid inquiry - BBC News 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Former drug executive Martin Shkreli, who called members of Congress “imbeciles” on social media, faced members of that legislative body on Thursday morning during a hearing on pharmaceutical pricing. 'Pharma Bro' Shkreli invokes the Fifth before Congress 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Does this mean the Chinese government consists of diplomatic imbeciles? Kim Jong-un hydrogen bomb claim underscores North Korean leader’s volatility 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z “Only an imbecile would dare to wage war against a land where the law of Allah reigns supreme,” he says, referring to Cameron. ISIS Fighters Purportedly Kill 5 British 'Spies' 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Ben Carson is a dangerously deluded religious imbecile… The fact that he is a candidate for president is a scandal,” Harris continued. Siding with Christian fanatics like Ben Carson over Noam Chomsky, Sam Harris exposes inherent conservatism of “New Atheism” 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z In Russell's script, Mangano is a paper saint surrounded by clawing imbeciles who undermine her at every turn. Joy is joyless, and easily David O. Russell's worst film 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z She said the EU’s “ridiculous, imbecile” policies were “an obstacle to securing the freedom of the French people.” End of EU Border-Free System Could See Euro Fail, Warns Juncker 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z The children will be underdeveloped: we know medically they will be stunted and almost like imbeciles, and lazy. Madagascar: the country that's poor but not poor enough for aid 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z A recent Iranian president was a Holocaust denier and he gathered imbeciles such as himself to a grand meeting devoted to Jew-hatred. From Nazi Germany to Iran, lessons on twisted leadership 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z “Wonder if the imbeciles who buy this case will live long enough to enjoy it,” wrote an Amazon user under a listing for one of the cases. Gun-Shaped iPhone Case ‘Is a Terrible Idea,’ Police Officials Warn 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z “If I had Donald Trump in front of me, I would call him a racist imbecile,” a Mexico City resident told the Guardian. Fact-checking Donald Trump's recent claims, from Mexico to San Francisco 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z But Akin is hardly the only imbecile on the right who feels the need to opine about female bodies while having some peculiar ideas of how they work. 6 conservatives in dire need of a high school sex ed class 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z He said Virginia’s policy was upheld by the Supreme Court, which said in 1927 that “three generations of imbeciles are enough.” Va. General Assembly agrees to compensate eugenics victims 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Bell, in which Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., writing for the majority, famously declared: “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” Virginia to Compensate Victims of Forced Sterilizations 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z If I’m responding to a tweet, my brain performs little calculations: “Cretin” is shorter than “imbecile.” Think you don’t use your fight-or-flight response anymore? Just try engaging with Internet trolls. 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z H14, like all computers in the real world, was an imbecile. We Know How You Feel 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z In 1862 the Chicago Times deemed President Abraham Lincoln an “irresolute, vacillating imbecile.” Fred Hiatt: Lessons of Lincoln’s press war 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z “And people assume I am an imbecile, a misogynist and a sexist. I think the truth is like most things, it’s probably in between.” Politics Meeting Parody at Princeton in Student Election 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z He thinks it injurious to “build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed and the sick” or to care for the poor. What You Didn’t Know About William Jennings Bryan. What You Should Know About Darwin 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z In the anonymous letter, published for the first time in the New York Times Wednesday, the author refers to the Nobel Peace Prize recipient as “evil,” a “fraud,” and a “dissolute, abnormal moral imbecile.” FBI Letter to Martin Luther King Jr Reveals Ugly Truths From Hoover's Era 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z And Abraham Lincoln’s own home-state newspaper once called him “imbecile in matter, disgusting in manner.” End Washington Gridlock With Compromise and Earmarks 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z Previous legislation already replaced references to imbeciles and lunatics in state laws. Brown approves changes to mental health references 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z I hate yelp and yelpers. useless data by tourists and imbeciles. especially for sushi places. 5 Ways Customer Reviews Are Useless (And One Way They're Not) 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z “The truth is,” Bai writes, “that Bush was never anything close to the ogre or the imbecile his most fevered detractors insisted he was.” Bush revisionism is back: Why this latest, pathetic attempt is so dangerous 2014-05-10T12:15:00Z He was variously described as "a cretin", "an imbecile" and "the animated skull". Home at the Top 2013-10-18T01:57:09Z Reading Twitter’s public timeline was like being trapped inside the mind of one enormous planet-sized imbecile. The British Twitter Insults Rumpus: Sadly, Yes, This Is What Some People Are Like 2013-08-05T15:48:00Z He dismissed anyone who did not think that this was funny as a "humourless imbecile". 'Orangutan' slur highlights open racism in Italian politics 2013-07-15T18:12:41Z In an infamous 1927 Supreme Court opinion, Oliver Wendell Holmes enthusiastically approved of this practice, saying of the coerced tubal ligation of a teenaged girl that “three generations of imbeciles are enough.” Eugenics Are Alive and Well In the United States 2013-07-10T09:45:40Z How does one say these things sincerely without sounding like a gushing imbecile? City Room: Richie Havens Was Gracious, I Was Dumbfounded 2013-05-01T16:54:24Z “Only an imbecile would say otherwise,” he added, referring to charges by conservatives that Mrs. Clinton faked her illness to avoid the Congressional questioning. Scare Amplifies Fears That Clinton’s Work Has Taken Heavy Toll 2013-01-05T01:11:55Z Where you can go and feel better about your life choices, because everyone you went to school with is an imbecile with politics that differ to yours. Happy birthday internet! Here are 15 reasons why I love you 2013-01-04T13:30:01Z It will eliminate the distance between idea and product, unleashing the creativity of geniuses and imbeciles alike. How HP Could Reinvent 3D Printing...and Itself 2012-10-15T13:40:00Z The fanatics who assassinated America’s ambassador to Libya in Benghazi on Tuesday night are not only criminals—they are imbeciles. Remembering Christopher Stevens 2012-09-12T21:25:00Z Today, the grey-haired duo of Denys and Whtmarsh behaved like old imbeciles. Hamilton pleased to be in fight 2012-09-09T18:11:11Z It's imbecile to suppose that quasi-democratic governments don't connive under pressure. Is there too much press freedom? Ask 72 dead journalists 2012-06-30T23:05:53Z Can we continue to drink the sluggish blood of the pauper and the imbecile into our veins and hope to escape unscathed? Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z She asked them each in turn, hurrying through her questions, scarcely waiting to hear the unusually imbecile answers. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z Bramsdean found himself deciding that either the fellow was an imbecile or else he was a past master in the art of dissimulation. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z In the past he had been wanton and imbecile and irresponsible. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z Any one but an imbecile would have acted as I did, though I remember taking some credit to myself at the time for my coolness and presence of mind. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z It is questionable if there is a single genuine case on record where a normal child has been born from a union of two imbeciles. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z Gray hairs do not make a coward of such a man, though they should render him imbecile. The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 2012-04-05T02:00:39.100Z Another picture shows the same child, with a head consisting chiefly of mouth, yelling in the middle of the night, while the parents look on, imbecile and helpless. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z It had just been a piece of imbecile wantonness. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z He was a sensualist, a coward, an imbecile, and a blockhead. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z The third, an insane epileptic, had three imbecile sons, one of whom was an epileptic. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z The only rational opinion is that all "mediums," professional or not, are imposters, and the participators in a séance are imbeciles. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z They may have been frightened of the man, but not even fear could make them behave like imbeciles. Held by Chinese Brigands 2012-03-26T02:00:40.573Z Accordingly, I approached the renowned imbecile and told him that I was going to California and would have to quit and would like to get my pay. The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer 2012-03-26T02:00:32.910Z "I was a fool, an idiot, an imbecile!" The King's Stratagem and Other Stories 2012-03-22T02:00:40.343Z The fifth, apparently normal, had a morally imbecile son and an epileptic daughter.” Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z On the one hand, the sceptics cleave fast to their denials, convinced that they know all the forces of nature, that all mediums are humbugs, and all experimenters imbeciles. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z But, whatever it may be, it is making imbeciles and idiots of many boys, and criminals of some of them. Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity 2012-03-22T02:00:38.537Z "But I can never see him" I said despairingly, "for that long imbecile of a clerk." The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer 2012-03-26T02:00:32.910Z Generally you can play the game, if you are good for nothing else; but since your brother came in, you have not made a move which anyone not an imbecile would make. The King's Stratagem and Other Stories 2012-03-22T02:00:40.343Z Father, mother, mother’s sister, and father’s uncle, all imbecile. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z Generally you can play the game if you are good for nothing else; but since your brother came in, you have not made a move which any one not an imbecile would make. When Love Calls 2012-03-22T02:00:36.883Z Electoral meetings were prohibited; democratic merchants and shop-keepers were threatened with a loss of patronage; and the whole republican party was officially denounced as a horde of imbeciles, and knaves, and fanatics. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z That foreign vessels should be the chief instruments in the hands of this imbecile government to do their dirty work, although garnished with gold. Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) 2012-03-19T02:00:25.027Z He called Nino a perfidious traitor and a foolish viper, and an imbecile and the son of an imbecile. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z There are cases on record of imbeciles with prodigious memories, yet hopelessly incapable of caring for themselves or of respecting the rights of others. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z His eyes were dull and his appearance almost that of an imbecile, except when an occasional spark of animation was noticeable. Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft 2012-03-16T02:00:21.923Z And she was beginning to think him wholly imbecile when his eyes left hers and fixed themselves on the front of her riding-coat. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z Its songs, its rowdy meetings, its coarse, imbecile language, its ludicrous street processions, were enough to furnish a Swift with fresh material for his indictment of mankind. Salvation Syrup; Or, Light On Darkest England 2012-03-14T02:00:28.613Z Again, let us pray for these imbeciles and for the charlatans who are blinding them. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Epileptics.—Although epileptics are not classed as imbeciles ordinarily, as a matter of fact no sharp distinction can be drawn between the two classes. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z Nothing but the dreamiest drivel, or delirium, the most wretched and imbecile juggling tricks, with all sorts of evasions, and deceptions and lies! Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z Shaking as with the palsy, and with his mouth fallen open--so that he looked more imbecile and less human than ever--he relinquished the stool. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z It is that imbecile young apprentice, Hallé, again. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z Twelve otherwise intelligent men put in a jury-box contaminate each other's will so that their united judgment is, as a rule, that of a full-fledged imbecile. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z The second son, insane, had three imbecile children. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z Somewhere in Turkey, in Asia, an imbecile Sheikh or Pasha whom he is endeavoring to serve, mistakes his manœuvres, and keeps him in captivity for a year or two. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z It was bad enough to be confined in this squalid hole with an imbecile driveller, and to spend long hours without other company. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z When that Stoical morality was attempted to be practised, it was only by imbecile fanatics or fiery enthusiasts, whom the ardour of their zeal rendered dangerous to society. Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels 2012-03-06T03:00:27.910Z Then the imbecile old man kissed the robe of the odalisk again and again, and folding her in his ardent embrace, actually sobbed over her. The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z Most investigators feel that there are too many criminal, imbecile, insane and unhealthy persons among the offspring of drunkards to dismiss the matter as a coincidence. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z As the strength of a chain must be measured by its weakest link, so the thought of a periodical must be measured by the thought of its most imbecile subscribers. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z She began to think he was imbecile, or worse, and that nothing could be got from him. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z That book sparkled and frothed like champagne; like that, too, it produced no dull and imbecile state by its intoxication, but one witty, genial, spiritual even. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z The law, therefore, should put the imbecile into safe keeping, then seek out the father and hang him. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z Hitherto we did not believe there were people stupid and imbecile enough to write such things. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z Generally you can play the game if you are good for nothing else; but since your brother came in, you have not made a move which any one save an imbecile would make. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z Wishing would not remove him into safety or comfort, would not relieve him from the consequences of his misdeeds, would not convert the skulking imbecile who faced him into decent company. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z It became a hack epithet of all work, to be used with no more discretion, though with less imbecile iteration, than the modern “awful.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z Fortunately, after a time, in many of these cases, a state of dementia sets in, and then the patients become mild-mannered imbeciles whom it is not at all difficult to manage. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z She was the only one of that shipload who was finally certified as an imbecile, and refused admission to the mainland. Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods 2012-02-24T03:00:25.813Z And yet, strange as it may seem, progress cannot be made save by way of paradox, whilst much vaunted common sense—the prized virtue of the imbecile—perpetuates the humdrum routine of daily life. The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports 2012-02-19T03:00:17.513Z He whose words had opened her eyes to their grim purpose was a dullard, almost an imbecile. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z It would be cruel to exhume those antique judgments, so honest, yet so imbecile and so mistaken. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z Sometimes such an imbecile has a remarkable facility in getting a speaking knowledge of two or three languages, and he may learn a trade. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z In the first place there are many useful and remunerative types of labor which can be performed by a domesticated animal or an imbecile, when working under constant or close supervision. Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods 2012-02-24T03:00:25.813Z Jean muttered with contempt: "The useless imbecile," and, disengaging himself from Toinon's encircling arms, leapt from the platform into the water. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z He was like his brother Glandore--only more crafty and astute instead of imbecile; that was all. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z His ruthless bearing had made him a despot in the imbecile senate. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z There is a high-grade imbecile that is cunning and shrewd, but he has no will, and he is a criminal. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z If I'm so incurably imbecile, why did you not go yourself? The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z As he put it himself, "Is it necessary to be modest, or, in other words, an imbecile?" Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art 2012-02-14T03:00:24.393Z Must we treat the Government as though it were imbecile? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z I presume he 46 is honest in this opinion, and no doubt regards Bruno, Spinoza and Humboldt as driveling imbeciles. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z A neurasthenic person may have a tender conscience, an imbecile has no conscience. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z And I would think much more of our Government if it would fete and feast them, instead of wining and dining the imbeciles of a royal line. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z Some of these priests may be credulous imbeciles and some may be pious rogues. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z Now, let us be honor bright with each other, and do not let the lawyers on the other side treat you as if you were twelve imbeciles. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z I protest that I have never had with you any difference—consciously—on any such point, and rather resent, frankly, your attributing to me a judgment so imbecile. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z The lowest grade of imbeciles understands simple commands, and has a slight manual dexterity. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z The plebeians, on the contrary, are depicted without appreciation of their sufferings or rights, as ignorant, imbecile, and the dupes of tricky demagogues. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Even now, at the close of the nineteenth century, there are hundreds and hundreds of men who make their living by casting the horoscopes of idiots and imbeciles. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z Just for a celluloid pillule he left us, Just for an imbecile batlet and ball, These were the toys by which Fortune bereft us Of Jennings, our captain, the pride of us all. Mr. Punch's Golf Stories 2012-01-28T03:00:25.907Z Of these 6 are recorded as borderline, 39 as morons, 50 as imbeciles, and 17 as idiots. Adenoids and Diseased Tonsils Their Effect on General Intelligence 2012-01-28T03:00:25.603Z The third class, the high-grade imbecile, is the most important, because he is commonly a criminal. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z "Of all the imbeciles that ever gave utterance to folly, you are the worst," was the Major's complimentary retort, when she broke down. The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 1 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:26.330Z And he never forgot his promise to his father," interposed the steward, "but has treated the child almost as though he were a true son, consistent with his imbecile state. The Story of Charles Strange, Vol. 3 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:22.303Z There will, I believe, be some relations in the house—but I hope you will not care for that, as we shall easily get as much talking as my imbecile state allows. Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters 2012-01-22T03:00:19.733Z This worthy gentleman, Delacroix by name, cared little for Holland or for its imbecile politics. The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 2012-01-19T03:00:20.007Z Autopsies on imbeciles show an infantile development of the forebrain. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z A feeble frame, an imbecile mind, torturing pain and incurable madness shall be of the inheritance which drunkards bequeath, to run with their blood to innocent descendants. Recitations for the Social Circle 2012-01-17T03:00:22.643Z If so, of course, that imbecile lad stood between me and the title and estate; though I don't think he could legally inherit. The Story of Charles Strange, Vol. 3 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:22.303Z He, from his glum stupidity, broke into a harsh, almost imbecile loquacity. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Open and defiant traitors have been his daily counselors, while his imbecile, undecided course gives no one confidence in his future policy. The Crisis of Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-One In The Government of The United States. Its Cause, and How it Should be Met 2012-01-12T03:00:13.627Z The idiot is practically dead, except for the trouble he gives in caring for him; but another unfortunate, the imbecile, most commonly the offspring of alcoholics, is often capable of great mischief. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z Oh, horror, yes; the whole building was in flames, and if Cecil were taken—even poor mad imbecile Cecil—what, what on earth would then be left her? The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z Do you see those two or three imbeciles who hold the world in their hands, and who, in their candid ignorance, believe themselves the wisest in the universe? The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z She had been thrown, by her father's second marriage, under the persecutions of a shrew, a jealous step-sister, and a century-old imbecile. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z As he was somewhat imbecile, he did not inquire of any one which road he should take; but he went on and on, and proceeded whithersoever his two eyes directed him. Folk-Tales of Bengal 2012-01-05T03:00:45.240Z The higher grades of imbeciles, those nearest the normal, are almost invariably criminals. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z The poor gentleman had been struck crazy, they whispered to one another; and so indeed he had: not raving mad with acute insanity, but blankly, hopelessly, and helplessly imbecile. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z Thou art not gold, O imbecile! to believe that after burial in the earth, you can be drawn from it again. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z She saw the old imbecile in the chimney corner and the shrewish step-mother, and the badgering step-sister, and even in the father who had brought her here, she knew that she had no effective ally. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z He felt there was no use in continuing the conversation with an imbecile like that. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z They are less criminal than the highest grade of imbeciles. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z Amleth, afraid of sharing his father’s fate, pretended to be imbecile, but the suspicion of Feng put him to various tests which are related in detail. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z The greatest, and, in this reference, the most instructive example of stupidity I ever met with, was the case of a totally imbecile boy of about eleven years of age, in an asylum. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z He had, lately, it was said, had a fresh attack, which had left him quite imbecile. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z All the apparitions I had ever heard of spoke with some approach to coherence, however imbecile their behaviour. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z As imbeciles approach the normal in intellect they recede from it in abnormality of will. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z The weak and imbecile might take refuge in despair, but the strength of youth should serve me better. The Captive in Patagonia 2011-12-27T03:00:10.803Z This imbecile idiot quivered at an observation of his own physician about the state of his own constitution, and forbade him ever to use the word in his presence again! An Address to Men of Science Calling Upon Them to Stand Forward and Vindicate the Truth.... 2011-12-24T03:08:05.883Z To this her antagonist's folly contributed, for she paraded herself and her splendour everywhere, with the imbecile and degraded old man. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z The utter lack of distinction between the ministering to private wants and the performance of a public function would do discredit to an imbecile. Exempting the Churches An Argument for the Abolition of This Unjust and Unconstitutional Practice 2011-12-24T03:08:02.973Z It is impossible to say how far a given imbecile is morally accountable for what he does, but the accountability is not full in the best cases. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z In 1816, the Regent, upon the death of his imbecile mother, Maria I., succeeded to the throne. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z The new consul was set down as either a harmless imbecile or an altogether new specimen of barbarian. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z Suddenly the old imbecile appeared on the scene, with the tray on which he was wont to carry off the broken pieces as a precious booty to his room. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z So it’s a bit disingenuous to now ascribe them to “imbeciles” who hadn’t even gathered in Zuccotti Park at the time. Billionaires Bite Back 2011-12-21T21:00:08Z A neurasthenic, however, is not to be mistaken for an imbecile. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z Did the shirtmaker take monsieur's measure?" he angrily replied: "Hold your tongue, you imbecile! Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 2011-12-19T03:00:37.437Z Between my teeth I called her coarse, imbecile, a bad mother. The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z Think of it, reader, a thousand recurring Sabbaths found the poor young imbecile growing from youth to a dreadfully premature old age. The Herriges Horror in Philadelphia A Full History of the Whole Affair. A Man Kept in a Dark Cage Like a Wild Beast for Twenty Years, As Alleged, in His Own Mother's and Brother's House 2011-12-14T03:00:19.043Z For one thing, such creatures never existed, and it was a species of art that was absolutely imbecile. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z Many women, especially, that are hopeless fools intellectually have strong wills, but an imbecile never has a strong will except in the sense that stubbornness is strength. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z In most cases, the development of the individual reproduces to a certain extent that of the race; but the motionless, imbecile pupa cannot represent a mature form. On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects 2011-12-05T03:00:46.667Z Is it that you suppose I am an imbecile? Amusement Only 2011-12-04T03:00:06.637Z A variety of other questions was put to the imbecile, to all of which he invariably gave quick and correct replies, provided the reply could be made in monosyllables. The Herriges Horror in Philadelphia A Full History of the Whole Affair. A Man Kept in a Dark Cage Like a Wild Beast for Twenty Years, As Alleged, in His Own Mother's and Brother's House 2011-12-14T03:00:19.043Z So you see," commented Quinn as he finished, "the younger Pitt wasn't so far wrong when he cynically remarked that 'there is a Providence that watches over children, imbeciles, and the United States.' On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents 2011-11-26T03:00:14.947Z But man has decided that he loves life so well that he will preserve even the imbeciles, the lame and the halt and the blind. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z The religious dupe is u poor metaphysician, and if he also acts badly he is both imbecile and wicked. Letters To Eugenia Or, A Preservative Against Religious Prejudices 2011-11-24T03:00:47.570Z This was followed by the reactionary period of pessimism, when I seemed to myself merely an imbecile, sitting in heavy rain, staring at a stone wall. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z People are losing their homes, people have to choose between heat and food, jobs are near impossible to find and these pathetic imbeciles are arguing over a 50-50 split in billions of dollars. What sports readers are saying 2011-11-19T06:59:07Z He used to say that only imbeciles and children required to be tied up in the morning. The Ascent of the Matterhorn 2011-11-19T03:00:23.233Z This duty will not be trusted to parents, for parents have an imbecile fear of talking straight to their children, and try to get by with rubbish about bees and flowers. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z It's quite an imbecile proceeding for us to waste poses and by-plays upon each other. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z Only if there’s really no alternative, including infants and imbeciles, would they give it to a princess. Every Man a King? U.K.’s Better Off With Its Queens: A.A. Gill 2011-11-14T01:24:13Z The localizing of fools is common to most countries, and there are many other reputed “imbecile” centres in England besides Gotham. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z At a representative meeting of London doctors, it was stated recently that the number of imbecile infants now coming into existence with us is no less than appalling. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z Of course, some children are well cared for, and so are some imbeciles, and some slaves, and some women. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z He took part with, and became the paltry tool of the weak, imbecile, cowardly being calling himself Prince Mavrocordato. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z To one of the grouchiest of those, let me just reply that there are only two “e’s” in the word “imbecile.” On the Road: Readers? Choice Words on Fees for Hotel Wi-Fi 2011-10-31T21:58:08Z Man is worse than a hopeless, mental imbecile, he is a hopeless, mental cheat. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z I was defrauded of this letter a long time by an imbecile postal system. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z Famine drove Ravenna to open its gates, and the Goths, enraged at their imbecile king, and struck with admiration for the courage and generosity of Belisarius, offered to make their conqueror Emperor of the West. The Byzantine Empire 2011-10-16T02:00:16.630Z But you must have thought me even more of an imbecile than I am. Mavis of Green Hill 2011-10-12T02:00:41.317Z But I cannot prevent myself from telling you that you are a great imbecile. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z The ill-fated sovereign was as imbecile and as weak as an infant, and his representative a profligate ruler. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:31.450Z To exact utter servitude is tyranny—to lower reasonable authority into flattery, entreaty, or apology, is an imbecile indulgence which a child should be as unwilling to ask as a parent to give. The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z He told himself that he was acting like an imbecile, but he could not seem to consider that important fact seriously. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z To dig up and to formulate this common background would be imbecile; it is "understood"; that is, it is silently supplied and implied as the taken-for-granted medium of intelligent exchange of ideas. How We Think 2011-09-16T02:00:18.973Z It's as if I suddenly became an imbecile. Scientists on trial: At fault? 2011-09-14T17:21:10.677Z But Lauzun also loved to play the imbecile and to utter with the tone of a simpleton phrases without sense; he indulged in this singular taste even before the King. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z The result shall be a disciplined, sagacious intellect without masculine hardness, delicate sensibility without imbecile listlessness, active energy without moping drudgery, a combination of powers and graces that wins homage from every heart. The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z Look at all the imbeciles who sailed into it, a vacuous smile on their lips and nothing whatever in their heads, and made a success of it! Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z The emperor therefore brought him to Petersburg and shut him up as an imbecile in an asylum. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z But his imbecile attempts to depress me only deserve laughter.” William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z Just then there was nothing; but with imbecile temerity I did say we had a number of 'religious novels' by a lady of great eminence. Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front 2011-09-09T02:01:03.463Z Ill treatment and lack of proper food had made him almost an imbecile, and he was the drudge of the institution. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z But Barnjum wouldn't; he only looked at his own wraith with a grim satisfaction as it capered in an imbecile fashion upon the rug. The Black Poodle And Other Tales 2011-08-30T02:00:37.963Z There were born eleven children: of these, five were imbecile; two were idiots, and the remaining four were sane. Insanity Its Causes and Prevention 2011-08-29T02:01:05.400Z But the war—and also the imbecile wantonness of the war-masters—consumed these flocks too, so that few are left. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z Or else let scientific atheism produce its reformed magdalens, and its homes for the hopelessly diseased and imbecile, and all “the weakest” who go, as she tenderly assures us, “to the wall.” The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z So Naples and Portugal regained their tyrants, and Spain her imbecile dynasty. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z My God! was ever man before such an imbecile? The Locusts' Years 2011-08-16T02:00:41.777Z Of these four, two had one child each, one of whom died of phthisis, and the other is at present an imbecile. Insanity Its Causes and Prevention 2011-08-29T02:01:05.400Z If God had not wanted man to think, he would have created man as an imbecile, and would never have placed an apple tree in Eden. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z They persuaded the unhappy imbecile that he had been bewitched through Austrian agency; they persuaded the populace of Madrid that the partisans of Austria had brought about a famine. William the Third 2011-07-31T02:00:12.077Z A propos of the mock patriots of the Commune engaged in this imbecile insurrection, Henty with his military instincts and contempt for vanity has a word or two for a great soldier. George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life 2011-07-31T02:00:08.463Z Have you done enough yet to lead astray your imbecile people? The Pl?biscite or, A Miller's Story of the War 2011-07-27T02:00:38.240Z These numbers are understood to be exclusive of criminals and imbecile children. Insanity Its Causes and Prevention 2011-08-29T02:01:05.400Z This meant that Her Majesty was imbecile—a brutal thing to suggest, considering family traditions. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z Albert would doubtless have become imbecile had it not been for the Prison Fairy. A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z Thus he liked to introduce insane or imbecile personages into fiction, where, as in real life, they are often dangerous to handle. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z Oh, you poor country folks, how I pity you for being such imbeciles! The Pl?biscite or, A Miller's Story of the War 2011-07-27T02:00:38.240Z Why should they be ignored, and the stage lowered to the level of the country bumpkin, the imbecile youth of the day, and his female friends? Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z In the courtyard were two enormous dogs, that barked loudly whenever we appeared, but at the same time wagged their tails and looked imbecile and good natured. Three in Norway by Two of Them 2011-07-10T02:00:15.900Z From the opening page of the first book, the reader engages with Harry's child's-eye view of a world ruled by imbeciles and malefactors. How Harry Potter Saved Reading 2011-07-09T00:21:05Z How imbecile had he been, thus to walk into the trap with his eyes open! Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z The child was clearly imbecile, and unfit to attend divine worship. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z The Alp-climber would have to cede to him the proud distinction of prize imbecile, I guess.” The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan 2011-07-05T02:00:28.367Z With an imbecile grin, Klaas followed the lady to a little stream of water, and performed the necessary toilet duties. The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z In China parents have the right to smother imbecile children. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z I had got into an exceedingly low, stupid, almost imbecile condition. A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado 2011-07-03T02:00:07.507Z In October 2007, he abruptly cut short an interview with the American television network CBS and called his press secretary at the time an “imbecile” for setting it up. Sarkozy Is Assaulted as He Meets Voters 2011-06-30T19:54:57Z For Rupert's sake I had submitted to insult from the overbearing lackeys of Railton House, and suffered the arrogance of the proud and imbecile lord himself. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z To communicate with such imbeciles is to court an insult, or at least to expose the communicating spirit to an exhibition of revolting antics and limited intelligence. All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z The Belgian, beyond muttering "imbecile" under his breath, made no further objection. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z Be it remembered, we had reached this very important conclusion: that epileptics, whether feeble-minded, or imbecile, or idiotic, never become capable of working at a trade. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z The existence of this partial memory is so common that it has been utilized in the education of idiots and imbeciles. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z During his later years, when he was nearly imbecile, she directed the whole policy of Spain so as to secure thrones in Italy for her sons. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z My informant, an eyewitness of the scene, was too nearly imbecile to stand cross-examination; but what he remembered was to the point. All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z While Cora and her chums were prisoners of the old man and his imbecile son. The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise The Cave in the Mountains 2011-06-16T02:00:18.377Z They all resemble one another, and all "promise much and achieve little," for they never cease to be imbeciles. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z It has long been observed that in many idiots and imbeciles the senses are very unequally developed; thus, the hearing may be of extreme delicacy and precision, while the other senses are blunted. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z "In the name of God, what have we here in this imbecile and forward creature, and why is this so and after this fashion?" asked Manuela of Don Pedro. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z From all this we may form some notion of the size of the metropolis, and its imbecile police. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Look at the imbecile smile of gratified vanity with which they receive the applause that follows a successful hit. Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography 2011-06-02T02:00:21.050Z We know one of them, an imbecile, but he had bad instincts, and who knows but that he might have been made useful? Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z Had she lived,—I shuddered at the thought,—she would have been imbecile like my grandfather and, doubtless, have lived to his age, ninety. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z We must find a bed here for him to-night," said the sympathising, but practical Manuela; "he is not fit, poor imbecile, to be sent to his hotel. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z And he smiled unrestrainedly, showing his broken teeth—the imbecile smile of a man who has dined too freely. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z There are wily mothers and desperate daughters throwing with unerring aim their nets over youths who have become reckless or imbecile. Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography 2011-06-02T02:00:21.050Z One can scarcely expect any real return in the case of imbeciles and idiots, and the merit of Dr. Decroly's statistics lies in the fact of distinguishing between such children and the feeble-minded. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z I recalled my own lack of affection after the years of sacrifice for the imbecile grandfather, my shiftless aunt. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z It was the same Providence that looks after drunken men and imbeciles. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z And then I talked the more and smiled at everybody in a way probably more imbecile than pleasing. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z Why, on the other hand, have the insane man and the imbecile old man no longer all their rights? Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z It would never do to say to the parents that their child is an idiot, an imbecile, a fool, or even abnormal. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z I had done my whole duty there in caring for my grandfather, imbecile for years, and my aunt, the last of my family, until they died. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z "An imbecile soldier saw a shadow; fired at it, and—" "The others followed suit?" laughed the visitor. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z He was looked upon as a fool, as an imbecile, as an ignoramus. In Search of a Son 2011-05-24T02:00:13.087Z Nothing should annoy him from the kind old imbecile who had come to his succour while the sound world stood aloof. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z It will be necessary to find out in what measure, and at the price of what effort, an imbecile can be instructed to the point, say of being able to read. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z Without being actually imbecile, she required minute attention. Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-17T02:00:19.780Z The author wittily adds, "What the devil was this imbecile solicitous about?" History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z A medical Inspector’s report in 1897, stated that in no less than “sixty four Workhouses imbeciles or weak-minded women are entrusted with the care of infants.” The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z His imbecile attempts to depress me only deserve laughter.” William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z One will not count a child an imbecile until he has had much more than the normal time to learn to read and write. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z When somebody accused Jean Moréas, that brilliant Greek, of being paradoxical, he replied: "I do not know what paradox is; I believe it is the name which imbeciles give to the truth." Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z The deposition of this imbecile, always equally naïve, is all the more conclusive. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z Children come in daily contact with all the inmates, even the imbeciles and feeble minded are to be found at the same dining table with them. The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z D has three children; one is an imbecile, one dies of apoplexy at twenty-three, and the third is an artist described as “extravagant.” Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z When these, in an admission certificate, call a child "idiot," "feeble-minded," or "imbecile," they are rarely in agreement with the confrère who, a few days later, examines the same child, and makes a new diagnosis. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z Quit, shut your sniveling charities; have mercy Not on these paupers, imbeciles, diseased ones, But on the progeny you let them breed. Domesday Book 2011-04-30T02:00:13.397Z Martial law must be applied in all its rigour to the journalists who have placed the torch and the chassepot in the hands of fanatic imbeciles. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z One witness states that she has “frequently seen a classed imbecile in charge of a baby.” The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z Moor has observed supernumerary fingers in an imbecile girl; her grandfather and one uncle are polydactylous and insane. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z To the majority of alienists, the idiot is one who is profoundly affected in his mental faculties, the imbecile is a little less, and the feeble-minded less still. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z The imbecile Emperor of Austria had to flee from his capital, as also the bureaucratic King of France. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z “Cowards! imbeciles!” he cried, striking with his left hand now one, now the other, and tearing the hats from their heads. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z The old man was almost imbecile, but the old woman still kept her faculties, and her eyes glanced furtively into all the corners, like a pair of sharpers watching their opportunity. Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z Thus in societies at a certain stage of culture imbeciles, paupers, lunatics, and congenital criminals live at large and even propagate through legal marriage. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z It is evident that he is not an idiot, nor an imbecile, nor even feeble-minded to any great extent. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z I have resolved to devote my first moment of strength to a despatch to F. O., and if I be only half an imbecile as I believe, I shall crown myself with imperishable laurel. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z All we had before—and precious little it was—of decent work, clear and alive and sane and close to reality, is being trampled to bits by this—this imbecile brute. Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z He was exasperated at what he considered his display of almost imbecile childishness. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z The fact that these three fractured their skulls in infancy saved them from being imbeciles and idiots like their brothers, sisters, and cousins. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z A child who does not yet know his letters after being at school for two years is likely to be an imbecile. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z Anarchy, intolerance, scandalous dissensions, an imbecile sovereign, these were the instruments which accomplished the ruin of the state. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z People are more than ever like segregated imbeciles, each absorbed in his or her own ploy. Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z Was there ever such a pack of imbeciles? The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z Of three children subsequently born, two are epileptics and one is a moral imbecile who manifests premonitory evidences of paranoia. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z There remains the imbecile, about whom we may hesitate. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z Such a charge was, he added, in burst of uncompromising self-abnegation, "imbecile." Punch 1893.07.29 2011-04-01T02:00:37.493Z But these imbeciles—the war seems to be a sort of tonic to their syrupy little souls; it's filled them up with vim and banal joy. Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z Do you think me a doddering fool—a weak imbecile? The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z Thus mothers have borne moral imbeciles, epileptics or lunatics, after a pregnancy during which they were attacked by contagious disease, albeit the children of subsequent and previous pregnancies were normal. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z From the moment the imbecile proves himself unable to learn to read or write, his place is in the workshop. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z They trumpet forth the glory of the ancients, whom they pretend have said everything; and they are so imbecile as to think that they divide the glory by publishing it. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z All went smoothly for three or four years, during which period Eleazar, who was little better than an imbecile, forgot his French, and remembered little or nothing of the past. Claimants to Royalty 2011-03-31T02:00:20.557Z |
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