idiotised

Updated: May 19, 2025

He had come to be conscious through it all of strangely glaring at people when they tried to haggle and not, as formerly, with the glare of derisive comment on their overdone humour, but with that of fairly idiotised surrender as if they were much mistaken in supposing, for the sake of conversation, that he might take himself for saveable by the difference between sevenpence and ninepence.

Henry James - The Finer Grain

The play was a more or less idiotised version of a new French piece, a thing that had taken in Paris at a third-rate theatre and was now proving itself in London good enough for houses mainly made up of ten-shilling stalls.

Henry James - The Tragic Muse