idiotorial
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
idiotorial (plural idiotorials)
- (informal, humorous) An editorial expressing an idiotic opinion.
- 1908, The Débris, page 344:
- 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.
- 1922, August Claessens, The Trinity of Plunder, page 20:
- 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.
- 1975, Walter Winchell, Winchell exclusive: "things that happened to me--and me to them:
- The head over the idiotorial was: "WINCHELL THE COCKROACH!"
- 2013, Robert Arellano, Don Dimaio of La Plata:
- 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.
Adjective edit
idiotorial (comparative more idiotorial, superlative most idiotorial)
- Pertaining to the writing of idiotorials.
- 1908, Purdue ... Debris, page 344:
- 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.
- 1971, Riverside Quarterly - Volume 5, Issue 2 - Volume 6, Issue 2, page 167:
- 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.
- 2018, Joesph Ovette, Advanced Magic, page 37:
- 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.