(n.) A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office.
(n.) An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person, as distinguished from the educated; an ignoramus.
(n.) A human being destitute of the ordinary intellectual powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental; commonly, a person without understanding from birth; a natural fool; a natural; an innocent.
(n.) A fool; a simpleton; -- a term of reproach.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thrasher Mitchell: Then why is that idiot Bernard Hogan-Howe getting a knighthood when his plebby plods tried to stitch me up?
(2) According to Deborah Mattinson, his pollster, Brown " loved slogans and believed them to be imbued with a mystical power capable of persuading the most intransigent voter", and therefore went a bundle on them – not least " A future fair for all ", the surreal dud with which Labour went to the country in 2010, following 2005's equally idiotic " forward not back ".
(3) But cowardly useful idiots of Warwick have banned @MaryamNamazie.” On Sunday night the union released a statement reversing the decision, which it stated had gone against normal procedures.
(4) Aren't the older generation always going to think kids are idiots?
(5) Treating voters like idiots doesn't often work – so the posters with a picture of a sick baby, saying, "She needs a new cardiac facility not an alternative voting system", or of the soldier, reading, "He needs bulletproof vests, not an alternative voting system", must surely be an insult too far to the public's intelligence.
(6) The boss of a successful US hedge fund has quit the industry with an extraordinary farewell letter dismissing his rivals as over-privileged "idiots" and thanking "stupid" traders for making him rich.
(7) Who can complain of physical fear, of the nightmare of a baby eating its way out of your abdomen, of the loss of professional autonomy, staring at a stranger's idiotic grin?
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Michael Flynn in 2016: ‘When you’re given immunity, you’ve probably committed a crime’ – video Vladimir Putin’s Russia is generally regarded as America’s mightiest enemy, however idiotic this might be.
(9) Whatever they'd gone through in the past, they were idiots for not understanding the modern world.
(10) If he was on the verge of becoming a "national treasure" to the minuscule percentage of the nation who could identify him by name were they shown a picture of him, this latest episode will have reminded them that there really are bigger and better idiots in public life to get behind.
(11) This is the most pathetic thing I’ve seen in my whole time in the United States Senate … I think they ought to stop posturing and acting like idiots.” Sean Spicer , the White House press secretary, branded the Democrats’ actions “embarrassing”.
(12) I picture myself at 80, the idiot who did something faddish instead of what people had always done and can never retire.
(13) But it is often said that only an idiot fights a war on two fronts.
(14) April 14, 2015 _Ds73_ (@darkeststar73) @sueperkins complete idiots think they can say what they like, glad we're not all the same !
(15) Many on the Right still view it as the epitome of all that was irresponsible, idiotic and dangerous about the Sixties, while many on the terminally fractured Left still mourn 1968 as the last great moment of revolutionary possibility.
(16) "But she also divides the critics like that other old-school oddball, Norman Wisdom, who was written off as a witless, irritating idiot with a penchant for falling over by some, and seen as a comic genius by others."
(17) "Oh, it says, 'You'll regret this one day, you idiot.'"
(18) 12.25pm: "Björn Lubbers mentioned in his email you posted at 10am that 'the Dutchies are a very friendly, hospitable and tolerant people, but humans will be humans and idiots will be idiots ...', emails Karin Prill.
(19) Every magistrate hears idiotic excuses from stupid criminals, but this is the DWP's unsubtle nudge that all claimants are fraudsters beneath the skin.
(20) I'll be cheering for Germany, and should we advance, hide my Germany-hat as deeply as possible in my backpack on the way home ... the Dutchies are a very friendly, hospitable and tolerant people, but humans will be humans and idiots will be idiots ... my cousin, also living in the Netherlands, is taking off his German license plate off his car and parking it deep inside an underground garage ...
Wanker
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Five minutes from time a fat red shirt stalked past making the tosser sign and, for emphasis, yelling: "Fucking wankers!"
(2) Disclosure of the arrest, which came after Hilton shouted "wanker" at train staff when he failed to produce his ticket on time, comes days after the leaking of emails he sent to Tory MPs.
(3) I am satisfied he helped to prevent Mr Sylla entering the carriage,” said Branston, adding that he also made “a wanker sign” toward the Frenchman.
(4) Thinking it was quite a lark we joined in and the ensuing 10-minute interval on the hallowed turf was a carnival atmosphere with much fun had by all, the highlight being the conga lines dancing to the chant of 'Bulstrode is a wanker'.
(5) The federal agriculture minister, Barnaby Joyce, has asked the broadcast watchdog to investigate outspoken radio host Kyle Sandilands for calling him a “wanker” and other insults on air.
(6) In EastEnders up to 10 years ago, when he was running it, "language was much more brutal, characters used words such as 'git', 'bloody', 'wanker', which are now no longer acceptable".
(7) It's a wanker, basically, but an advanced one; one you "feed" using a smartphone app that lets you design custom-built sandwiches according to its whims.
(8) The favourite phrase I used to get whenever I went to Liverpool – as soon as I got off a train or out of my car – was: ‘Hey, Bob, tell that Tony Wilson he’s a wanker.’ I must have had that delivered to me thousands of times.
(9) Then his daughter kept things ticking over by retweeting a comment on his critics: "Hello to the bunch of wankers that come from the proletariat and only criticize those they envy".
(10) I'd say: 'Why are you acting like a complete wanker?'
(11) Wankers," I said, fingering my cup, wondering if that was what the clay wrangler wanted me to say.
(12) He's already telling me what a wanker I am, and he's clearly not going to leave.
(13) Ian Hislop , a team captain on Have I Got News For You, declined to join a host of high-profile figures in signing a public letter warning against cuts to the BBC to avoid appearing to be an “overpaid wanker”, he has revealed.
(14) He then reportedly started shouting "wanker" and was arrested and taken to the New Street's rail police station.
(15) He has never taken drugs, because back in the 80s, "one or two of my colleagues started acting like complete wankers.
(16) ‘Terrific wankerer’, ‘sadistic nurse’: Boris strikes again (and again) All of this means that our foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, cannot even hope to win awards for undiplomatic language, however often he mentions the US president’s part-Kenyan ancestry, calls the Turkish president a “terrific wankerer”, quips that the only reason he “wouldn’t visit some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump” or that Hillary Clinton looks like “a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital”.
(17) Johnny Borrell is a wanker because he's a wanker, not because Razorlight got massive."
(18) And sometimes, at least in public, they do really act like wankers.
(19) It happened today when dutifully reporting that Steve Hilton, one of the three or four most important people in David Cameron's working life, called a stroppy ticket collector at Birmingham New St station a "wanker."
(20) "Because we've spent so many evenings and weekends writing together, the fact that we can now do that during the day feels very precious," says Gonzalez, who then catches himself and says: "I sound like a complete wanker."