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comparative more asinine, superlative most asinine
Very foolish; failing to exercise intelligence or judgement or rationality. quotations examples
They danced on silently, softly. Their feet played tricks to the beat of the tireless measure, that exquisitely asinine blare which is England's punishment for having lost America.
1922, Michael Arlen, “2/2/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of donkeys. quotations examples
Don Quixote had put himself but a little way ayont the village of Don Diego, when he encountered two apparent priests, or students, and two husbandmen, who came mounted on four asinine beasts.
1881, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, The Ingenious Knight: Don Quixote de la Mancha, page 84