idiotly

comparative more idiotly · superlative most idiotly

1. informalIn the manner of an idiot; idiotically.

   He remembered their faces, red and idiotly merry with excited ridicule, so fiercely eager to lay indignity on someone else.

   1958, J. R. Salamanca, The Lost Country, page 193

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   […], 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.

   1931, tNicolas C. Dizon, The "Master" vs. Juan de la Cruz, page 99

   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.

   1972, James Thomas Gresham, John Barth as Menippean Satirist, page 146