moronicadj.

1910 Pedagogical Seminary 17 395 These children might be called ‘morons’... We would have moron for the noun, moronia for the condition, moronic for the adjective.

1915 New Republic 24 July 318/2 We would be apt to call our own amiable, light-fingered and moronic observations by some such title as ‘Skirting About France’, or ‘Snapshots at Europe’.

1917 Sci. Monthly Sept. 244 The terms ‘shyster’ and ‘quack’ readily suggest themselves. These social weeds are not indigenous to imbecilic or even moronic soil.

1926 N.Y. Herald-Tribune 28 Nov. vii. 4/2 A facetious account of a young girl's discovery that her brother had died of a venereal disease which has the romping moronic quality of a tabloid front page.

1959 Punch 13 May 641/2 They interrupt Macbeth, they cackle at M. Hulot, they share their moronic comments with their escorts.

1975 D. Bloodworth Clients of Omega xxi. 204 Provoking desperate people into believing that they can only bring about unity among men by knocking their moronic heads together.

1995 New Yorker 30 Jan. 28/2 But the screenplay for this deliberately over-the-top..farce..doesn't pass muster as a string of moronic skits.

2010 S. E. Cupp Losing our Relig. 98 For Maher, learning about faith is moronic and a waste of time.

1929 Daily Texan (Univ. Texas, Austin) 29 Mar. 5/1 Even if you are in sympathy with the nitwit alarmists..and are willing moronically to be guided by their homeopathic tenets, [etc.].

1931 Churchman 14 Feb. 15 The philosophers go home considerably enheartened when they find Socrates moronically low in his I.Q. score.

1994 Daily Tel. 17 Aug. 16/6 To lump them together with those who moronically seek to disrupt other services is to cause offence to the tens of thousands of licensed amateurs.

2003 B. Goldberg in A. Cuomo Crossroads 135 Conservatives, they say, are loud and angry and make complex issues moronically simple.