idioticallyadv.

1678 H. More Let. 25 May 53 in J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) As for that weak imputation that this opinion of its being Samuel's soul that appeared, is Popish, that is very Plebeianly and Idiotically spoken, as if every thing that the Popish party are for, were Popish.

1789 J. Pinkerton Enq. Hist. Scotl. II. v. iii. 121 It is evident that the Celts, far from being, as Pelloutier idiotically supposes, spred all over Europe, were in fact confined to one third of Gaul.

1830 Edinb. Lit. Jrnl. July 7/1 We have been sometimes stark staring mad, sometimes idiotically silly, and sometimes piteously imbecile.

1860 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1861) III. cxvi. 51 War idiotically begun, and carried on with contempt of the ordinary rules for escaping defeat.

1904 ‘A. Cambridge’ Sisters xiii. 103 You did things for my father..that you never ought to have done at all; and now you want to be twice as idiotically generous to us.

1961 H. C. Phillips My Best Puzzles in Logic & Reasoning 46 Minim took Quaver to be the cellist. Quaver, idiotically, thought that Crotchet was the pianist, and so on.

1990 A. Munro Friend of my Youth 18 Who would wear such a dress for a wedding at the manse?—Pure-white satin with a sweetheart neckline, idiotically youthful.

2006 J. H. Kunstler Long Emergency 324 With..the Democrats consumed in fugues of irresolution while pandering idiotically to tired old identity politics.