Far from a Mensa candidate

Usage examples of idiot.

He thought of the ancient legends of Ultimate Chaos, at whose centre sprawls the blind idiot god Azathoth, Lord of All Things, encircled by his flopping horde of mindless and amorphous dancers, and lulled by the thin monotonous piping of a demoniac flute held in nameless paws.

Nyarlathotep, the mad faceless god, howls blindly in the darkness to the piping of two amorphous idiot flute--players.

August, after that idiot from Anchorage tried to taxi through the wall.

Those idiots in the Avion government blamed the whole mess on the Chief of Security and his Kin-sha unit.

Idiot, with a look of surprise on his face, which seemed to indicate that in his opinion the Bibliomaniac was very dull-witted not to have solved the problem for himself.

Might not this idiot of a Bunning have been shown the way to the mystery?

She had the pleasure of seeing her bank broken at the first deal, and indeed this result was to be expected, as anybody not an absolute idiot could see how the cards were going.

Yes, smiles break out all around as we cast daddies, brothers, husbands into near-respectable village idiots in the stories we spin over bowls of homegrown, freshly snapped peas, clotheslines draped with bleach-scented, bloodstained damp sheets, sinks filled with suds and supper-crusted dishes.

I knew it was forged, but two days later it dawned on me that the idiot was right.

She, in her turn, had a great dread of passing for an idiot if she did not shew her appreciation of, and her resentment for, his conduct.

Simpson, that kind smiling idiot, who, I daresay, presided even then over the place--Captain William Dobbin did not take the slightest notice.

Could the youth be a man who would let a doddard idiot rob him of the girl he loved?

He could hardly have avoided learning of it for a succession of officers came to the ammunition park to give Sharpe their con dolences and to complain that an army which persecuted a man for killing the enemy must be an army led by idiots and administered by fools.

From the crowd came mutters to the effect that there were worse things than setting tables and doing idiot dances for a living, but the men around the table, several of whom had sat there when Dungy was their chief, frowned doubtfully, as though wondering whether capturing this man would be worth the risk.

The epoxy that we had too much of because some idiot computer clerk sent it instead of fruit.