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imbecilic, a.|ɪmbɪˈsɪlɪk|
[f. imbecile n. + -ic.]
Characteristic of an imbecile; idiotic.
1918D. Flatau Yellow English xxxv, Looking round with an imbecilic grin. 1927Daily Express 3 Dec. 4 Courteline..collected..the most hideous and imbecilic portraits he could find. 1960‘A. Burgess’ Right to Answer ii. 18 There was a kind of imbecilic helper in the public bar. 1968Punch 7 Feb. 194/1 Extrovert delegates prance about singing, blowing horns and shouting imbecilic slogans.
Hence imbeˈcilically adv., in an imbecile manner.
1946B. Marshall George Brown's Schooldays 28 Pretended not to pray or looked imbecilically heathen. |