How To Use Asinine In A Sentence
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It is the most perfectly asinine closing statement I think I have ever heard by a ‘professional’ writer.
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What an asinine remark!
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Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement and asinine affectations.
December 7th, 2005
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Next time: post some actual research about what people actually think in these particular states before asininely commenting on the subject with no regard for the actual facts on the ground.
Matthew Yglesias » The Road Not Taken
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And the obnoxious rantings of certain techno-utopians border on the asinine when they don't cross it.
Journalism: product v process (Blog for Democracy)
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Meanwhile, the Crown is held to account for every syllable uttered, all the while keeping an eye on the allocated budget, which tends to result in asinine decisions to only take to trial cases which are absolute slam dunks.
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This concept of fun should include more than the few dozen people willing to grind their way through an asinine number of hours to become the best of the best*.
MMOG Nation » The Nature of the Game
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Perhaps this is only another example of the asinine and anserous dunderheadedness of these crass provincials.
Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891
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And over all that was this asinine tingling in her chest because of his voice in her ear.
FLIGHT LESSONS
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After tea, we were entertained with a sonata on the harpsichord by lady Bullford, who sung and played to admiration; but Sir Thomas seemed to be a little asinine in the article of ears, though he affected to be in raptures, and begged his wife to favour us with an arietta of her own composing. —
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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Judy, if I do nothing else in my life I will never stop trying to bring to people the conviction of how wasteful and asinine is a human expenditure of this kind.
The Thoughtful Soldier
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And over all that was this asinine tingling in her chest because of his voice in her ear.
FLIGHT LESSONS
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I have to admit, with a heavy heart, that when I originally read about the new villains, I thought they sounded asinine, with daft names and even dafter looks.
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Have you heard anything as asinine as that before?
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Will---" He turned his back on her, on the lights, on the people and their asinine questions.
SACRAMENT
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What is scary is that these big men and women sit, discuss, debate and come up with these asinine reasons for why things are in a mess.
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So many newbies take his writings as gospel and come here to spread the good news repeatedly and asininely… often for 2 or 3 days after the HOT BREAKING STORY !
Firedoglake » Where is This Going?
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Beneath those perpetual rain clouds they have asinine radical chic down to a tee.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had asked for some time off to help promote his CD, which was, you know, incredibly asinine to do at the beginning of the season.
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Needless to say, this was an asinine decision for three reasons.
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If it were not for those like you the BBC would not have felt bias was an issue, your hate has only bred more hate and what have you achieved?, so forgive me if I don't care for your approbation, not that of the asinine "resistor" who objects to the sound of "silence" phil
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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However, all of his blind, asinine nonsense was going to be put to an end.
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asinine
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It's a big sticky mess of Hollywood myths and Manson references and completely asinine pieces of detective work.
COLDHEART CANYON
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Other bands don't: they eschew the arty deliberations of the underground in favour of an all-out assault upon preconceptions and asinine posturing.
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People who comment on such things as Limbaugh’s asinine remark really do need to be aware — and report — that it is the MEDICINE that MAKES Mr. Fox twist and writhe… the condition is known as dyskinesia, and it’s a direct effect of the levodopa in the medicine Sinemet, without which a person with advanced Parkinson’s wouldn’t be able to move at all.
Think Progress » “Either he didn’t take his medication
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Marcia also makes it clear she thought it was asinine, though she tries to sugar it up a little.
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asinine
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Shows insist on running asinine competitions to check that their listeners are awake and tuned in (and to harvest phone numbers for marketing purposes).
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Yes, maybe a tiny, tiny smidgeon, but the difference is so negligible that it is borderline asinine to risk a fake 1961 Ducru when one can almost certainly find pristine bottles of the 1966 and buy and drink them with confidence.
Natural wines, premox, chenin blanc, 07 Port and Rhone – John Gilman | Dr Vino's wine blog
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Obama has spent the last two weeks undercutting everything that generated excitement about his candidacy by asininely swallowing the CW that he needs to run toward the center to get elected.
Obama Campaign Condemns Wes Clark's Comments About McCain
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He'd gone along on their senseless, asinine prowl, ignoring them the whole way, hating what he was surrounded by and hating himself for reasons he could no longer understand.
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His immigration plan was quite moderate, and he abstained from the asinine FMA.
Think Progress » Hagel: “Focus Group-Tested Buzz Words…Like ‘Cut and Run’ Debase the Seriousness of War”
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It is not in and of itself a racist, sexist, homophobic or otherwise asininely bigoted slur.
Archive 2009-01-01
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Will---" He turned his back on her, on the lights, on the people and their asinine questions.
SACRAMENT
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His few political interventions are puerile and his forays abroad - to Australia, Orkney, Israel - are, well, asinine.
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He earned the dough to bring this asinine concept to life, and has even recruited some heavy hitters to nurture it.
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It's asinine that The New York Times describes Esther as "dissonant," negatively, as if in sympathy with those critizing the decision to stage the work.
Unnatural Acts of Opera
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Purchase and possession (and carry) at 18 – 20 by the otherwise law-abiding is and should be no big deal; 21 is, in the end, as arbitrary (and asinine) an age limit for legal purchase as it is for alcohol.
The Volokh Conspiracy » How Would an 18-to-20-Year-Old Go About Buying a Handgun?
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We are not Duke Hsiang of Sung and have no use for his asinine ethics.
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Calendar is given priority to with animal picture, the asinine picture that Mr. Zhao cooperates with Huang Zhou is very sapid. Original, mr.
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I know the stereotype is out there that donkeys are dumb animals (hence the root of the word asinine), but there are limits to their stupidity and I firmly believe even a donkey would not posit the garbage that Schmedly put forward.
Obama Pokes Fun At Hillary's Shot-And-A-Beer
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Alternatively should I talk about Asin, the Latin root of the English word "asinine" whose hyper-animated innocent girl routine was so grating that I was cheering on Ghajini and his sledgehammer to put me out my misery?
Random Thoughts of a Demented Mind
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In Major League Baseball, meantime, the Yankees are bemoaning revenue sharing while White Sox General Manager Ken Williams used the word "asinine" to describe the possibility that Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols could land a $30 million a year contract.
BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
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It's just plain asinine to think that by concious efforts alone you can stop all the spyware/viruses on the internet from infecting your computer.
AppRemover Removes Stubborn Security Applications | Lifehacker Australia
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Each interview conducted by a HR specialist was asinine in the extreme, without exception.
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Now, allow me to explain why the preceding statements are so utterly asinine.
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Donkeys, however -- equus asinus- where we get the word asinine -- are principally known for stubbornness, a demonstration of which is now in session.
Will Durst: Swamp Drainage Detritus
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It is curious, as I look at the things in my own life: my own failures that led to success, my sometimes asinine reductivism concerning eras that were quite complicated, yet I still shrug and say "it all sucked.
Through with buzz
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To those claiming that this asinine sovereign citizen movement is a reaction to a black president, this ridiculousness has been around a LONG time, at least 30 years.
Think Progress » Indiana’s ‘sovereign citizens’ renounce their U.S. citizenship, claim to secede from the Union.
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Donkeys, however -- equus asinus - where we get the word asinine -- are principally known for stubbornness, a demonstration of which is now in session.
Will Durst: Swamp Drainage Detritus
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In an open letter to fans, Mr. Gilbert audaciously - or perhaps asininely - argued that James '"betrayed" Cleveland by leaving.
Andrew Wilkes: Lebron James and the Taste of Humble Pie
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That statement is so asinine as not to deserve any response from me.
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It's a distended medley of uproars, asinine taunts, genuine skill, charm, and self-indulgence.
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It's a big sticky mess of Hollywood myths and Manson references and completely asinine pieces of detective work.
COLDHEART CANYON
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While I happen to consider the term asinine as defined by the Bush Administration, putting it in quotes is approximately equivalent to preceding it with a deprecating but information-free phrase such as so-called.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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I dislike the music, find the plots to be asinine and chauvinistic, and hate the predictable and unrealistically cheerful endings.
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Poor Saint-Rene Taillandier is as asininely pedantic as the
The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
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From the Urban Dictionary - "jackassery" 1. a large quantity of stupid, asinine behavior; typically referring to a group of people exhibiting poor judgment.
Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
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That's asinine and they will be undone by their sloppy decision-making.
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This would be a collection of subrational bromides and asinine assumptions designed more to please Lynchburg Virginia and not Bellingham Massachusetts.
The Chimes at Midnight
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Whether a phrase like “the rape of the countryside” trivialises rape or not it is not part of the distinct process of abjection that results in racist, sexist, homophobic or otherwise asininely bigoted slurs.
On Profanity: 4
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A contestant makes a truly asinine remark and the boredom abates slightly, even as annoyance levels are soaring.
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Now this was asinine enough to get him some serious humiliation.
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It's absolutely asinine to spend three hours out of your day traveling to and from work.
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This is as much "emotional" portrayal of these characters as we get; the rest of the story continues to wring equally asinine changes on an already dopy idea.
Experimental Fiction
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The writing is worse than asinine, and the direction assumes an audience who won't get the jokes unless they are battered with them for several minutes.
