Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Want of intelligence; stupidity due to ignorance; unwisdom.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Absence or lack of intelligence; unwisdom; ignorance.
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- noun Lack of
intelligence .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's time we have some accountability down in Washington for intelligence, what I call unintelligence community.
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It's time we have some accountability down in Washington for intelligence -- what I call unintelligence community.
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But the hard unintelligence, which is just now our bane, cannot be conquered by storm; it must be suppled and reduced by culture, by a growth in the variety, fulness, and sweetness of our spiritual life; and this end can only be reached by studying things that are outside of ourselves, and by studying them disinterestedly.
Celtic Literature Matthew Arnold 1855
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i am sure they will find some kind of unintelligence and if elected McBush would declare war on Cuba one day and then "Mission Accomplished" the next day as the war goes on for another 5 years!
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This does not give justice to the unintelligence that showed up to the meeting.
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Because of Cheney and to a certain extent Bush, for reasons of his sheer unintelligence and incompetency, the enemies of the United States only further consolidated their strength, their numbers, and are more powerful today solely because of failed 'Republican Values' than ever before.
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The kind of “progressive” that gets its meth from the same dealer as the other trolls and spouts whatever uncompromising, unintelligence nonsense we hear from other trolls, just coming from the polar opposite direction.
Think Progress » Stupak receives death threats after voting for health reform. 2010
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She was the reason that McCain couldn't win the Presidential election; because, of her unintelligence. lovable liberal
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The Western Front does not cover everything -- the deceptions of the Bush Administration, the unintelligence of the intelligence community, the incompetence of the US civilian authority in Baghdad, the mercenariness of the humanitarian and reconstruction industry, the inflexibility of the US military leadership - no one film could indulge all those wrongs.
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Even if you buy into the whole photographic memory (or whatever it is that he does), you gotta also buy into that the entire Santa Barbara PD is run by complete idiots chasing criminals of equal unintelligence.
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