Tomorrow these people who are now asleep will be stirring, giving vent to outrageous ideas, championing incredulous banalities, prostrating themselves before imbecile superstitions.
The imbecilebourgeoisie of this country make themselves the accomplices of the very people whose aim is to drive them out of their houses to starve in ditches.
Any imbecile that has got an income believes in that.
Does he know that, thisimbecile who has made his way in this world of gorged fools by looking at the ears and teeth of a lot of poor, luckless devils?
Watching the nimble fingers of the shabby minstrel with pitiably childish expression of amusement, a half-imbecile morio leaned upon the table.
The leader took the blade, examined it, and then began to call down curses on the head of the imbecile monster.
My tongue spoke these imbecile words in spite of my brain.
At a representative meeting of London doctors, it was stated recently that the number of imbecile infants now coming into existence with us is no less than appalling.
What reliance, say infidels, can be placed in these rhapsodies and puerile tales, strung together without choice or order by the most imbecile of men?
His being a clergyman would be only for gentility's sake, and I think there is nothing more contemptible than such imbecile gentility.
The red fire with its gently audible movement seemed like a solemn existence calmly independent of the petty passions, the imbecile desires, the straining after worthless uncertainties, which were daily moving her contempt.
Who's the imbecile meddler who sent you blundering here?
Nothing short of that would free him from this imbecile nightmare.
The tenacity of that Feraud, the awful persistence of that imbecile brute, came to him with the tremendous force of a relentless destiny.
Again she was tempted to revolt against such imbecile tyranny; and again, as she debated the situation, the wisdom, the necessity of submitting became apparent.
But a woman who is natural shocks them, and they are taken in and pleased by one who poses as more innocent and impossible than any human being not perfectly imbecile could remain in a world that conceals nothing.
A stout girl, who looked more imbecile than mad, was playing tricks, that a woman who appeared to have some authority among them endeavoured to stop.
And why in the name of everything that was imbecile had Lord Ashiel, who knew much better than anyone else how real the danger was, chosen to sit at a lighted window, and offer so tempting a target to his enemy?
Parents, brought up to be the slaves of custom, carry on the imbecile traditions that have been handed down to them from former generations, without stopping to consider whether they are rational or foolish.
It is good enough for the majority of people that the imbecile things they do were done by their forefathers before them; and no tradition is more rigidly followed than that which prescribes the manner of bringing up children.
When Junot appeared Bonaparte began--"Imbecile that you are!
It was resolved at any price to get rid of those imbecile councillors, who thought they might treat France like a country conquered by the emigrants.
Godoy reigned in Spain under the name of the imbecile Charles IV.
A tri-coloured cockade placed on the forehead of the great King still bore witness of the imbecile turpitude of the Convention.
Under a feeble Government there is but one step from discontent to insurrection, under an imbecile Government like that of France in 1814, after the departure of M.
But for the clear girlish liking for herself she saw in Betty Vanderpoel's, Mary would have known her next speech to be of imbecile bluntness.
Do you suppose your simpering good spirits and your imbecile pink cheeks told me nothing?
In every quarter the work of death and destruction still went on: the human brute unchained, the imbecile wrath, the mad fury, of man devouring his brother man.
In the midst of it all, there is only the imbecile or the sloth who suffers injury without inflicting it.
That imbecile of a pit claps hands to the echo, and never sees that we are a mere worsted ball of daintinesses ('Tis true the ball grows a trifle big, but what does it matter?
This so foils the child as to make him half imbecileor criminal.
He is a theoretic imbecile trying to frustrate and dislocate all life.
It is good to be frank, though it is sometimes unpleasant, and I must plead guilty to an imbecile misapprehension.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "imbecile" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
