imbecility
IPA: ˈɪmbʌsˈɪɫʌti
noun
- The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, especially of mind.
- Something imbecilic; a stupid action, behaviour, etc.
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Examples of "imbecility" in Sentences
- That phrase is a fatuous imbecility.
- That is probably the largest imbecility.
- I had a sneaking suspicion of their imbecility.
- They must be either stupid to the point of imbecility.
- The movies are just relentless sinkholes of imbecility.
- Some of these exempting circumstances are imbecility or youth.
- Armitage gave himself a mental kick for what he termed his imbecility, and went back to the hotel.
- It takes a special kind of imbecility to continue contradicting oneself even after the contradiction has been pointed out.
- If youth, inexperience or just plain imbecility factors in to make the killing a waste through loss of meat or trophy -- I say we give the goofball a good stomping!
- Those who so deplore my 'imbecility' and 'incapacity' are the very men who are endeavoring to bring about a collision between the people of Kansas and the troops under General Ewing's command.
- The man recovered himself slowly, and then affected that look of imbecility which is invariably the Dutchman's effort at self-protection when he is cornered by a question which he does not wish to answer.
- _that_, by such testimony as he approves, and not appear to seek to bolster up the decisions of truth and faithfulness, by calling on Indian ignorance and imbecility, which is subject to be operated on by every species of selfishness.
- Young men are more frequently wanton and dissolute than old men; but yet, as it is not all young men that are so, but the bad set among them, even so senile folly -- usually called imbecility -- applies to old men of unsound character, not to all.
- The TRUSTEE himself should determine that, by such testimony as he approves, and not appear to seek to bolster up the decisions of truth and faithfulness, by calling on Indian ignorance and imbecility, which is subject to be operated on by every species of selfishness.
- Jefferson expressed himself as being ardently desirous of seeing a good system commenced for raising the condition both of the body and the mind of the slaves to what it ought to be as fast as the "imbecility" of their then existence and other circumstances, which could not be neglected, would admit.
- Urged on by the emissaries of that colossal superstition which casts its shadow over this Republic (whose home is a foreign kingdom, and whose head is a foreign prince), the semi-barbarous hordes of mingled races in the South American States, are a prey to successive bloody revolutions, through that imbecility which is the sure result of the amalgamation of civilization with barbarism.