asinine
adjective
foolish, unintelligent, or silly; stupid.
asininity
-
a word derived from
asinine.
Example Sentences
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Utter asininity is the bread and butter of “The Naked Gun,” and the movie milks cop idiocy for all its worth.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2025
In reviewing the most intellectually demoralizing events of 2021, I’ll leave aside a few discrete outbursts of asininity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2021
Tell a francophone, “This is the best tarte au citron!,” and it will come across less as sincere praise than as an asininity.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016
All of that changed in the fatal asininity of Vietnam.
From Time Magazine Archive
You’d spew a lot less asininity if you were willing to see beyond the eighteenth hole of your country club golf course.
From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone
