idiotly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…], and in order to win the support of those who could not think for themselves, you deliberately and falsely represented yourself as the holder of several Doctor's degrees and idiotly claimed to be the Coming Master."
- "He remembered their faces, red and idiotly merry with excited ridicule, so fiercely eager to lay indignity on someone else."
- "Whimsic fantasy, grub fact, pure senseless music—none in itself would do; to embody all and rise above each, in a work neither longfaced nor idiotly grinning, but adventuresome, passionately humored, merry with the pain of insight, wise and smiling in the terror of life—that was my calm ambition."
Etymology
From idiot + -ly.
Usage
Inflected Forms
more idiotly (comparative)
most idiotly (superlative)