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单词 imbecility
释义
imbecility
noun[U]
uk
/ˌɪm.bəˈsɪl.ə.ti/us
/ˌɪm.bəˈsɪl.ə.t̬i/
thequalityof beingextremelystupid:
低能；弱智；十分愚蠢
Theabsoluteimbecility of this show has to beseento bebelieved.看了才相信，这绝对是个愚蠢透顶的节目。
Thekidsweregigglingandactinggoofyto thepointof imbecility.孩子们咯咯地笑着，表现得很蠢，近乎弱智。
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imbecile
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  • Injury fromradiationwastreatedat thetimewith a casualness thatapproachesimbecility.
  • Heclaimsthateconomicexpansionshould beseenas thenormalstateofaffairsanddownturnasextraordinaryimbecility.
  • He is sweet-natured butdimto thepointof imbecility.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Stupid and silly
  • absurd
  • absurdity
  • absurdly
  • adolescent
  • againstyourbetter judgmentidiom
  • dizzily
  • dopey
  • dorky
  • dottiness
  • dotty
  • impolitic
  • imprudent
  • inhis/her/theirwisdomidiom
  • insomeone'sinfinite wisdomidiom
  • inadvisable
  • uncritically
  • unintelligent
  • unreasonable
  • unreasonably
  • unwise
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(Definition ofimbecilityfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofimbecility

imbecility
To constrain a man to suchimbecilityis to insult him, and is besides an injury to the community in preventing freedom of election.
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Indeed, anybody who was prepared to accept that particular office might well stand self-condemned ofimbecility.
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She had been admitted with moralimbecility: she had had a child out of wedlock.
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There were mental defectives, and cases ofimbecilityand sleepy sickness.
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Is itimbecilityto make such a suggestion as that?
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I think that statement was the height or the depth ofimbecility.
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He wants to embody in this paragraph the definition ofimbecilitywhich appears in paragraph (b).
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To think such a feat capable of accomplishment within, say, the lifetime of the present generation, is evidence either of childishness orimbecility.
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I have always maintained that they are obscure to the point ofimbecility.
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As a rule it is a tax onimbecilityfor the general run of stuff that we see produced in newspapers, but that is nothing to us.
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Surely we have reached the point ofimbecilitywhen the arguments are deserted amid the and pros and cons of the old, failed and outdated two-party system.
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Couldimbecilitygo further than that?
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Then of course there is the crowningimbecilityof the agricultural system, which actually grows food to fill storage warehouses instead of feeding the starving people.
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Moderation in war isimbecility.
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I class in this number, idiotism,imbecility, dulness.
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