STUPID in a Sentence

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I repeat, I repeat with emphasis: all "direct" persons and men of action are active just because they are stupid and limited.

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 Meanings and Examples of STUPID
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
stupid
 a.  in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock
 a.  lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity
Classic Sentence: (206 in 14 pages)
1  It is stupid enough, yet, lay anything aside, and in a trice he will have stolen it.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
2  Ah, you nuisance, you good-for-nothing, you had better hold your stupid tongue.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
3  As things are now, the world has grown stupid to a degree that passes belief.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
4  She had a well-educated, well-bred, but rather stupid husband, and no children.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  I was stupid and fidgety then,' answered Pavel Petrovitch; 'since then I have grown quieter, if not wiser.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
6  When this happened to her, she did not very quickly come out again; her face even assumed at such times an obstinate, almost stupid expression.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
7  Arina Vlasyevna was very kindhearted, and in her way not at all stupid.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
8  I repeat, I repeat with emphasis: all "direct" persons and men of action are active just because they are stupid and limited.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: V
9  Man is stupid, you know, phenomenally stupid; or rather he is not at all stupid, but he is so ungrateful that you could not find another like him in all creation.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: VII
10  Of course, this very stupid thing, this caprice of ours, may be in reality, gentlemen, more advantageous for us than anything else on earth, especially in certain cases.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: VIII
11  And what was worst of all, I thought it actually stupid looking, and I would have been quite satisfied if I could have looked intelligent.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
12  They were all stupid, and as like one another as so many sheep.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
13  They laughed cynically at my face, at my clumsy figure; and yet what stupid faces they had themselves.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: III
14  Trudolyubov struck up some stupid song.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: IV
15  Before me was standing a person with a stupid smile, the "madam" herself, who had seen me before.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: V
Example Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
16  Then he does something stupid with a television researcher and is left holding the baby.
17  Love makes you stupid : whispers of love is a bunch of stupid, a love letter is silly talk, valentine is a little fool.
18  A stupid fellow is difficult to teach.
19  I can't get this bloody stupid thing to work.
20  Though an uneducated man, Chavez was not a stupid one.
21  As well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid.
22  It really does make you look rather stupid and like you're trying to concoct something where nothing exists.
23  It seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.
24  They agree that half the fun of being sober is watching how really stupid their drunk friends behave.
25  One of them didn't know how to spell "stupid," and he had to ask his neighbor to tell him.
26  Without wisdom, cynicism is only another way of being stupid.
27  She could even make out that one of them didn't know how to spell "stupid," and that he had to ask his neighbour to tell him.
28  He may be stupid and mean, but his one saving grace is his humour.
29  Our country, in case you are too stupid to comprehend, is being ruined by the policies of this administration.
30  Apart from me being stupid, New York in summer is warm and exhausting, which is a new experience for me.