idiocy

The most complete cases of aggravated idiocy were, to his mind, rampant upon the front platforms of all the street cars.

A thoroughly sensible wife would reduce me to a condition of absolute idiocy in less than six months.

I might have loved Mary if it hadn't been for that idiocy of mine.

"You say your hair is gone?" he said, with an air almost of idiocy.

For me the district institutions simply mean the liability to pay fourpence halfpenny for every three acres, to drive into the town, sleep with bugs, and listen to all sorts of idiocy and loathsomeness, and self-interest offers me no inducement."

After all I said to you just now, are you deliberately going to start the old idiocy all over again?'

This amounts to idiocy, and once the damaging fact is established, thoughtful people will cease to look up to him, the sentimental will cease to fondle him.

"I have perpetrated the--the piece of idiocy," I said as I came level with her.

Oh, believe me, at times there were flashes of will that scorched through her beauty and seduction and smote a victim into blank and shivering idiocy and fear.

His free hand went to my throat, and in that moment I knew the bitterest foretaste of death earned by one's own idiocy. Why had I trusted myself within reach of those terrible arms?

He was ashamed just because he, Raskolnikov, had so hopelessly, stupidly come to grief through some decree of blind fate, and must humble himself and submit to "the idiocy" of a sentence, if he were anyhow to be at peace.

It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life.