I think it is not too much to hope that when class exploitation is done away with, we shall also get rid of these class symbols, and choose our clothing because it is warm and comfortable, and not according to the perverted Imbecilities of "style."
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair
No great loss you 'll say, if the four or five smooth-faced Imbecilities we have spoken of are not to the fore!
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
He saw burnings, lynchings, fusillades, hangings; each day his soul sickened afresh at the Imbecilities born of misrule.
"The Woman in Black"
Edmund Clerihew Bentley