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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cretinous
Adjective
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So although these actions may seem fatuous on the surface, the next four years will be about looking for the undercurrents.—
Anita Chabria,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2025 -
Second, this rationale for regulation proved to be illogical and fatuous as conceded by U.S. Courts and the Federal Communications Commission in the decades since.—
Carine Harb,
Newsweek,
9 Jan. 2025
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The O’Haras happen to move in next door to him. Frothy and often filthy without being brainless (send thanks across the Atlantic for that good British dialogue), this is escapism done right.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
30 Oct. 2024
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So, what can the neuronal activity of a tiny, brainless creature possibly tell us about the evolution of our own complex brains?—
Elizabeth Rayne,
Ars Technica,
15 June 2024
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The result is a cacophonous temper tantrum, a vacuous and perfidious advertisement for military recruitment.—
Gregory Nussen,
Deadline,
28 Mar. 2025
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The vacuous idea was to simply log into the generative AI app and start typing.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Blood in a brain-dead patient circulated through a pig’s liver that was outside the person’s body.—
Jen Christensen,
CNN Money,
26 Mar. 2025
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Terry was declared brain-dead by doctors and died on August 15, 2024, nearly three days after the initial 911 call, the outlet reported.—
Stepheny Price,
Fox News,
24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Amelia soon decides that stupid boys (and humans in general) aren't worth keeping around.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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Sharing war plans outside U.S. government systems is the kind of offense that is almost too stupid to commit.—
Daniel DePetris,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Too many young people are making idiotic short-term financial decisions that hamper long-term success.—
Chandler Dean,
The New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2023
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Beyond the Lungs Two other cardiac cases impressed me — and blew away the idiotic notion that young people are immune to COVID-19.—
Tony Dajer,
Discover Magazine,
30 July 2020
Adjective
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Google had to re-edit a Super Bowl ad for its artificial intelligence (AI) tool Gemini because the original ad had Gemini seeming artificially unintelligent.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
7 Feb. 2025
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Growing shares in each party describe those in the other party as more closed-minded, dishonest, immoral and unintelligent than other Americans.—
NBC News,
NBC News,
22 Dec. 2024
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Witherspoon’s timing is whip-crack good, and Ferrell’s is, too, on a different wavelength, even when the material’s settling for surprisingly witless profanity punchlines that don’t quiiiiite qualify as actual jokes.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Jan. 2025
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But this latest effort, premiering on Prime Video, proves a relentlessly vulgar and witless affair that not even the talents of stars Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon and a comedically gifted supporting cast can rescue.—
Frank Scheck,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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“Cretinous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cretinous. Accessed 6 Apr. 2025.
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