How to Use stupidity in a Sentence

stupidity

noun
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  • That male stupidity is the center of the play, not race.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The loss rests squarely on the shoulders of the head coach and his 4th down stupidity.
    — oregonlive, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The humans have lost a lot of colonists: a few to the ’saurs, more to infection, but most to stupidity.
    — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 19 June 2020
  • The sing-song in her voice brought a smile to my face, knowing she, too, reveled in my stupidity.
    — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2022
  • The investors deserved to lose their shirts; greed and stupidity got the better of them.
    — WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Your strategic stupidity may cost you in the short term.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2019
  • That somehow merges in my mind — the brutality of it and the stupidity of it.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Also, forgive my math stupidity, but why scale it to 100 in the first place?
    — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2023
  • That’s when the toxic cocktail of greed, stupidity and hubris takes over.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2022
  • The entire earth really needs a good laugh these days and the boys are back to help bring stupidity to a new out-of-this-world level.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 27 June 2022
  • In a world where so much wealth is concentrated in the hands of so few, that stupidity can be a sort of comfort.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2022
  • My point here is not the hypocrisy and stupidity of celebrities, Leonardo DiCaprio sailing around on the world’s fifth-largest yacht and all that.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 29 Dec. 2019
  • Stupid, and that stupidity is gonna keep corona around longer than anyone wants.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 15 June 2020
  • And maybe, just maybe, that doesn’t happen without some of the arrogance and stupidity of his younger years.
    — USA Today, 21 Jan. 2021
  • There are no winners in this game of blundering stupidity that Auburn likes to play with the football team and the hearts of its faithful fans.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 11 Feb. 2022
  • What’s been built to date can stand as a monument to the arrogance and stupidity of Newsom and his cronies.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The stupidity of that claim is truly shocking, even in a politician.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Many of those belong to Vaughn — now there is an actor not afraid to lean into stupidity.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug. 2020
  • But eventually fun gives up the ghost; stupidity wins out and then stomps fun’s skull like an egg.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 31 Jan. 2024
  • And the boy winked and turned away and began fiddling with the grill, shaking his head once in a while and hissing under his breath at his own stupidity.
    — Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
  • It’s the shaky-cam close-up that punctuates a moment of stupidity.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 10 May 2021
  • And leaving all of this in writing in two Telegram groups is pure stupidity.
    — Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The 8 hours of drinking, laughter and funny stupidity was followed by two days of feeling like a bowl of dog mess.
    — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Amid all these victories, there has been a ton of failure, error, and sheer willful stupidity over the past year and a half.
    — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Such stupidity could not have been achieved by one person working on his own.
    — Will Ryans, Field & Stream, 17 Mar. 2020
  • The Caitlin Clark incident was just plain stupidity — the oblivious fan running down the court with her eyes on her cell phone.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Because of stupidity these babies lives were put at risk and one did not survive!
    — Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 2 Dec. 2020
  • New Yorkers are not alone in paying a high price for the stupidity and cowardice of Andrew Cuomo.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Tatis, who has become a great right fielder, hasn’t been the same with the bat since his three wrist surgeries and motorcycle stupidity.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2024
  • While there was plenty of stupidity supplied from the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene, the general concept of a look-back is welcome.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 5 June 2024

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