imbecile:
(plural: ‘imbeciles‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘i’ rhymes with the letter ‘i’ in “ink”)
a person of a weak mind and body, much weaker than an idiot’s;
a fool; a stupid,
e.g.
John’s wife thinks that he’s an imbecile who ought to put in the loony bin permanently!
There are different types of imbeciles: political imbeciles, medical imbeciles, criminal imbeciles, rich imbeciles, educated imbeciles and uneducated imbeciles.
When a political party is in power, the opposition parties call them a ‘party of imbeciles’, which means that the people who have elected them are imbeciles!
The TV was once accused of making healthy people imbeciles; now it’s the turn of the computer and the Net for making people ultimate imbeciles.
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