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Stupidly

Stupid \Stu"pid\, a. [L. stupidus, fr. stupere to be stupefied: cf. F. stupide.]

  1. Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons.

    O that men . . . should be so stupid grown . . . As to forsake the living God!
    --Milton.

    With wild surprise, A moment stupid, motionless he stood.
    --Thomson.

  2. Resulting from, or evincing, stupidity; formed without skill or genius; dull; heavy; -- said of things.

    Observe what loads of stupid rhymes Oppress us in corrupted times.
    --Swift.

    Syn: Simple; insensible; sluggish; senseless; doltish; sottish; dull; heavy; clodpated. -- Stu"pid*ly, adv. -- Stu"pid*ness, n.

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stupidly

adv. In a stupid manner.

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stupidly

adv. in a stupid manner; "he had stupidly bought a one way ticket" [syn: doltishly, without thinking]

Usage examples of "stupidly".

Burnside sat between us, and Burnside was stupidly buying every ounce of it.

I stupidly told Mides that Parmades wanted to talk with me, Mides must have gotten suspicious.

It would have been comic were it not all so miserable, the night so ghastly and full of blood and fire and if his stupidly earnest face hadnt looked so much like Heryn Millward s, the young guard now lying dead in a puddle of his own blood in Anissas chamber.

They were deaf to disaffection, blind to the alternative ideas it gave rise to, blandly impervious to challenge, unconcerned by the dismay at their misconduct and the rising wrath at their misgovernment, fixed in refusal to change, almost stupidly stubborn in maintaining a corrupt existing system.

He was a poet, a painter, a musician--possibly a soldier, or a king--possibly anything--spoiled, blighted by that misnamed good fortune which the lucky workers who had to work so naturally and stupidly envied him.

He sat on the deck, hanging stupidly to a telephone jackbox, with water sloshing around his crotch, and looked to the exec as to a wizard, or an angel of God, to save him with magic passes.

They are not a part of my mentality and when you put me on my honour or leave things to what you call my good faith unchecked, you cruelly and stupidly doom me to failure and that is true of all of us.

Once more, Tristan pushed forward into the fight, selecting a stupidly grinning Firbolg as his next target.

I said stupidly, and sat grieving for the man I scarcely knew, truly heavyhearted to learn that he had died.

He smiled widely and nodded stupidly, and managed to begin breathing again, in short gasps.

The head-ends of the tanks protruded a couple of feet from their shoulder-height plyboard cubicles, like stupidly baroque brass coffins covered with cheap decorative detail.

It went drink and he sat grinning stupidly through fat, scaly black le red, the abraen and sun-baked purp lips, his face swoll scab, and leis ions on his cheek covered with a crusty weeping his bloodshot eyes gummed up with dried mucus.

He shooed away some circling bloodgnats with his free hand and brushed a snail-slow, stupidly curious dustball spider off his leg.

They kept themselves back in the days of steamboating supremacy, by a system of wharfage-dues so stupidly graded as to prohibit what may be called small RETAIL traffic in freights and passengers.

But I found my legs would not function, and I stood in the path of the charge, groping stupidly for cartridges which were useless as thrown peppercorns against this grey mountain of flesh.