Gardens can be sharp and spiky as well as rose-embowered and honeysuckle-twined: there are corners and settings where thistles are not such an asinine taste after all. From LearnThat.org. [Robin Lane Fox, Source: Thoughts on Thistles, 1986]
Adjective : It is surprising that supposedly intelligent people can make such asinine statements. ,asinine obstinacy; asinine features. From Dictionary.com.
Where we get the word asinine -- are principally known for stubbornness, a demonstration of which is now in session. From Wordnik.com. [YubaNet.com] Reference
I take being called asinine with a grain of salt, especially since asinine was spelled incorrectly. From Wordnik.com. [Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Tuesday] Reference
But when we stop this kind of asinine language, it's missed. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Privately Urging Her Pledged Delegates To Vote For Obama At Convention] Reference
What kind of asinine twerps are employed in airports as managers?. From Wordnik.com. [NYT article censored by NYT: Details Emerge in British Terror Case « raincoaster] Reference
I'm astounded there are people out there who are in charge who make this kind of asinine decision. From Wordnik.com. [Women's jumpers still hoping for flight in 2010 Games] Reference
Before you dismiss this as "asinine," you might want to consider it as part of the whole argument. From Wordnik.com. [Speaking with the Enemy] Reference
I have been checking the internet all day at work to find out what kind of asinine cul-de-sac name that they picked. From Wordnik.com. [tell your name, the livelong June, to an admiring Blog] Reference
Or so CNN says, it what is referred to as "asinine". From Wordnik.com. [MaxRedline] Reference
LordZorch: "asinine" tag not working today, submittard?. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
Wells chairman says public stress-test of banks is 'asinine'. From Wordnik.com. [Phoenix Business News - Local Phoenix News | The Business Journal of Phoenix] Reference
I think they provided the definition for "asinine" for the media. From Wordnik.com. [Hot Air » Top Picks] Reference
So, my preference on which event entertained me the most this year is "asinine"?. From Wordnik.com. [MMA Mania] Reference
Kovacevich said it was "asinine" for the Treasury to order his and other big banks to undergo a special. From Wordnik.com. [Ottaway Online Editors] Reference
For starters, the TARP money and those "asinine" stress tests indisputably steadied a shaky financial system. From Wordnik.com. [Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com] Reference
I wholeheartedly agree with all these points, and yet I do not think the TSA is "asinine" or "needs to be abolished.". From Wordnik.com. [reddit.com: what's new online!] Reference
What kind of asinine remark is it to somehow try to equate a person's performance "doing their job" to their union status?. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Mass. Group - Front Page] Reference
"asinine" way to try to boost public confidence in the big banks. From Wordnik.com. [Birmingham Business News - Local Birmingham News | Birmingham Business Journal] Reference
"It's really asinine and out of control," says Fitch. From Wordnik.com. [Searching For Nirvana Ii] Reference
But I keep you trifling too long on this asinine subject. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
Most asked asinine questions: "Will you play at my party?". From Wordnik.com. [Toto, I Don’t Think We’re in Texas Anymore] Reference
No! These twenty pairs of donkeys belonged to an asinine Trades Union. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawk of Egypt] Reference
It had not been Dudley who had dismissed him, asinine as he had been about. From Wordnik.com. [The La Chance Mine Mystery] Reference
For that reason, O Sakra, I do not grieve (for this asinine form of mine). From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
He is a mixture, they say, of the chivalric and the asinine: a kind of moral mule. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850] Reference
Living his asinine form, he has to wander for some time in great affliction as a spirit. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
It rests, indeed, on an estimate of publicity that has become childish, and almost asinine. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
He clearly found every question asinine and dispatched each one of them with extreme efficiency. From Wordnik.com. [That’s Entertainment!] Reference
I still preferred walking, and pushed on at a pace which suited none of my company, human or asinine. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
Sean Hayes has said little about the article, though he called it asinine on the TV program "The View.". From Wordnik.com. [Offstage With Broadway Star Sean Hayes] Reference
"I told you this whole thing was asinine," Thurgood snarled as the scientific teams trooped into the bunker. From Wordnik.com. [A Filbert Is a Nut] Reference
Perhaps this is only another example of the asinine and anserous dunderheadedness of these crass provincials. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891] Reference
Casting off his asinine form, he has next to take birth as an ox, in which state he has to live for seven years. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
In an interview, Mr. Williams said it would be "asinine to give someone a third term specifically for a pension.". From Wordnik.com. [Councilman Not Shy About Retiring] Reference
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