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  • adverb In an imbecilic way.

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imbecilic +‎ -ally

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Examples

  • If Mark van Bommel and Nigel de Jong did a better job than Gilberto Silva and Felipe Melo (who made Brazil's opening goal but then, imbecilically, got himself sent off), then that was probably what swung the match.

    World Cup 2010: Dutch learn to put function above flair 2010

  • Nigel de Jong did a better job than Gilberto Silva and Felipe Melo (who made Brazil's opening goal but then, imbecilically, got himself sent off), then that was probably what swung the match.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2010

  • His typical toe-shuffling excuse of "thinking it was funny" is pretty weak, but as a stupid teenager up until the age of 29, I at least understand: imbecilically doing something "for laughs" and having it blow up to involve the police is practically a rite of passage for teenage males.

    Cult of Mac 2010

  • His typical toe-shuffling excuse of "thinking it was funny" is pretty weak, but as a stupid teenager up until the age of 29, I at least understand: imbecilically doing something "for laughs" and having it blow up to involve the police is practically a rite of passage for teenage males.

    Cult of Mac 2010

  • Which makes it all the more bizarre when one occasionally hears imbecilically naive conservatives wonder out-loud why black Americans don't vote for Republicans.

    The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy 2009

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