Example sentences for: asinine

How can you use “asinine” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Such policies are not only asinine, they are—and here I have found another appropriate place for the buzz word of the decade— counterproductive: the energies expended on vengeance are entirely wasted and should be channeled to changing the present system to ensure that they are not continued.

  • Three of these fusions could very well be contemporary: rug-headed, urchin-snouted, and Agueface (an in-your-face gibe delivered to the asinine Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth-Night ).

  • “ `highly offensive' in any context because it denotes the stereotype of the American Indian” (too asinine to merit comment).

  • When Licklider arrived, his agency specialized in the sort of esoteric Department of Defense research that could only be called "asinine" (his word, in fact).

  • An asinine , human action is the one only an ass should commit, since ass `animal known for its stupidity' is based on Latin asinus `ass.


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