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asinine

/as-uh-nahyn/US // ˈæs əˌnaɪn //UK // (ˈæsɪˌnaɪn) //

卑鄙无耻,卑鄙的,卑鄙无耻的,卑鄙

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : foolish, unintelligent, or silly; stupid: It is surprising that supposedly intelligent people can make such asinine statements.
    • : of or like an ass: asinine obstinacy;asinine features.

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Examples

  • “Now I don’t know how in the world anything could be more asinine than that,” he said, pointing to numbers indicating that just 37 percent of such workers were getting vaccinated.

  • Marijuana prohibition is a dead man walking, but some institutions are so drunk with power that they sit around and cook up asinine arguments about how smoking a J to relieve stress is the same thing as being Barry Bonds.

  • Alas, what should be a runaway creative success for the game’s director, Josef Fares, is marred by a tone-deaf narrative element which shows that asinine ethnic caricatures unfortunately still exist in video games.

  • Is Olivia Pope an “Angry Black Woman,” as one asinine TV critic suggests?

  • That we find so hallowed and important, but also so asinine and silly?

  • She hypnotized Cory with her free spirit, freer hair, and asinine name, coaxing him out of his shell and into love with her.

  • Asinine comments like this leave the President looking like the only mature kid in town.

  • Funny how the ones deemed “geniuses” always act the most asinine in relationships.

  • "We are somewhat surprised," he said, knowing it for an asinine remark but afraid to risk his dignity by being plainer.

  • Morsfield, entirely objecting to asinine harness with him, mocked at his invocation and intonation of the name of Jove.

  • For these patriotic services the members of the asinine assembly are duly acknowledging their gratitude.

  • His faith was unshaken—in sheer asinine fatuity it was sublime.

  • One of them in particular, who shall be nameless, quite asinine.