Usage examples for idiocy
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He resided for many years in New York, and made, while in America, valuable contributions to the literature of idiocy. – Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke
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The trouble, when it came, was all my own making, and my dismissal was entirely due to an act of silly recklessness and my own idiocy. – Captain Macklin by Richard Harding Davis
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Vice and misery, suffering and poverty, idleness and dishonesty, feeble- mindedness and idiocy are all blended, but no set- off in virtue and industry is to be found. – London's Underworld by Thomas Holmes