It is similar to imbecile and idiot. But the drunkard dodges his questions by giving some philosophical or imbecile answers. It added the categories of "lunatic" and "imbecile" to those recorded as infirm. Their eldest daughter, Annie, was labelled a dumb imbecile. The hereditary leader of the Earth, known as the Secretary General, is an inbred imbecile. Stories describe him as an "imbecile" and violently insane. He is instead replaced by the cannibalistic imbecile, Vermin. The phrase "practically an imbecile" presumably gave Jeeves the idea to blame his employer. However, the term "imbecile" quickly passed into vernacular usage as a derogatory term. Steele started to fully cultivate his gimmick of a menacing imbecile. The Old One has an adopted son who is an imbecile named Ah Bock. The 5th baronet was apparently imbecile at this time and died soon after. At this point, Treves assumed the Elephant Man was an "imbecile". This, in Davy's view, was sufficient to demonstrate that she was certainly no imbecile. This imbecile has us especially close to his heart.