idiotorial

plural idiotorials

1. humorousinformalAn editorial expressing an idiotic opinion.

   The head over the idiotorial was: "WINCHELL THE COCKROACH!"

   1975, Walter Winchell, Winchell exclusive: "things that happened to me--and me to them

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   Doubtless you, gentle reader, are giving yourself over to the frivolity of glancing this way in the same spirit of novelty that impelled us to write an idiotorial that really said something.

   1908, The Débris, page 344

   Echoes of Mallock's arguments are still in the air, and every time some "idiotor" of a great daily wants to write a rant against the “Reds” he grabs his well-worn copy of Mallock, breathes in some of its inspiration and then blows it out into a long-winded, big-worded “idiotorial” on Socialism.

   1922, August Claessens, The Trinity of Plunder, page 20

   Sukoff is already on his cell assigning the shocking story to one of his non-union stooges at the PlaGa meanwhile dictating an enraged idiotorial that's supposed to pass as the opinion of the whole soulless paper.

   2013, Robert Arellano, Don Dimaio of La Plata

comparative more idiotorial · superlative most idiotorial

1. Pertaining to the writing of idiotorials.

   Then we have the Idiotorial Necromancer and Presto High-Diver, who writes learnedly of that which he does not comprehend and which he is incompetent to analyze.

   2018, Joesph Ovette, Advanced Magic, page 37

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   In explanation of how we prepare these unoffending and peaceable dissertations that have met with such universal acknowledgement, we vouchsafe the following instruction to the young idiotorial space-filler.

   1908, Purdue ... Debris, page 344

   On the theory that intelligent life exists north of the Border, we (the well-known idiotorial "we") welcome, this issue, two new Canadian artists, Claudia Dubie and Ralph Alfonso.

   1971, Riverside Quarterly - Volume 5, Issue 2 - Volume 6, Issue 2, page 167