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stupidstitious en · ADJ

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Etymology

Blend of stupid + superstitious.

Meanings

1. (derogatory, humorous, slang) Of a belief or superstition, characterized by irrationality and a lack of critical reasoning to the extent that it is viewed as especially foolish or unintelligent.
   • Recently this view was shared by someone who offhandedly commented to me that the great number of people interested in reading ghost stories in Hawai'i illustrated how "stupidstitious" islanders could be! 1999, Glen Grant, Obake Files: Ghostly Encounters in Supernatural Hawai'I, page xix:
   • But Duke – he has blue eyes, the kind with tiny black pupils that disappear when he's mean-mad, the kind that stupidstitious people wear a blue bead against. 2007, D. H. Melhem, Stigma and the Cave: Two Novels, page 105:
   • >>> Do you think maybe some of these players get superstitious? Like wearing the same socks they wore when they got the first slam or something? :) <<< / There is a fine line between stupidstitious behavior and having all conditions the same so that there is no doubt in the response of your equipment, clothing, racquets, shoes, etc. I grew up in baseball and became anti-stupidstitious due to all the goofy shenannigans players pulled it trying to keep everything 'the same'. 2002 August 20, Bill Smith, “Changing Rackets - sex equivalency”, in rec.sport.tennis (Usenet):
   • My dear Daughter is what I call a little stupidstitious in her religious observances', he wrote shortly after his ninety-second birthday. 1982, Dewey Ganzel, Fortune and Men's Eyes: The Career of John Payne Collier, page 393:
   • I tell you son, ancient and medieval people were superstitious, but today's people are stupidstitious. 2015, Joe Black, Pawns of the Game:
   • but this is dangerous politics. They want a republic that is not a republic. This is stupid politics. It is stupid belief or stupidstitious (don’t use dictionary you won’t find this word)! 2019 July 27, Prisca Mupfumira, “The Saturday Column: From best hotels in London to police cells in Harare”, in The Herald:

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