(a.) Of or belonging to, or having the qualities of, the ass, as stupidity and obstinacy.
Example Sentences:
(1) If only the prize itself could get away from its asinine "glittering occasion" presentation, it might yet be taken as seriously as it deserves to be - at least when it is awarded to projects like Accordia, a scheme that promises to transcend fads and fashion.
(2) I'd groan at gossip magazines, furious with the world's asinine obsession with celebrity, disappointed by women gazing doe-eyed at the camera with vulnerable, save-me expressions on their Botoxed faces.
(3) It is asinine because at every turn politicians have made worse the imbalance between demand and supply.
(4) Chris Grayling, to take an asinine example, claimed last week that the courts have been taken over by left-wing agitators.
(5) The thought came over me: am I to spend all the best part of my life in this wretched bondage, forcibly suppressing my rage at the idleness, the apathy and the hyperbolic and most asinine stupidity of these fat headed oafs and on compulsion assuming an air of kindness, patience and assiduity?
(6) These two isolates appear prototypic of two previously unrecorded herpesviruses for which the names asinine herpesvirus 2 and 3 are suggested for the betaherpesvirus and the alphaherpesvirus respectively.
(7) As he rhetorically asked: "Can anyone seriously believe the dispute would have gone global, or that the British government would have made its asinine threat to suspend the Ecuadorean embassy's diplomatic status and enter it by force, or that scores of police would have surrounded the building, swarming up and down the fire escape and guarding every window, if it was all about one man wanted for questioning over sex crime allegations in Stockholm?"
(8) The S. schenckii has been described in São Paulo, Brazil, in canines, felines, asinines, bovines, equines and murines.
(9) The sad truth is that housing policy in Britain is asinine and cowardly.
(10) Stewart’s impersonation had ripple effects, including the imagining of the real-estate developer’s minions during his asinine quest to reveal President Obama’s “true birth certificate” , but Stewart was never funnier than when he channeled Trump himself, razzing him for taking Sarah Palin out for a less-than-true New York slice of pizza .
(11) Having read (and loved) her first two books , I would have considered Lewycka an unlikely candidate to pen such an asinine attack on the stock market – which made it all the more disappointing to see what poison flowed from her pen.
(12) Not to be outdone, the endlessly asinine “explanatory journalism” site Vox informed us that “ If the supercontinent Pangaea spontaneously reunited, the US would border the Ebola epidemic”.
(13) For a year now, pollsters, the media and the world at large have been baffled by the fact that no incendiary or asinine thing Trump says or tweets seems to make any dent in his appeal.
(14) A panel of 14 monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) was used to characterize the high abundance glycoproteins of equine herpesviruses 4 (EHV-4) and 1 (EHV-1), and asinine herpesvirus 3 (AHV-3).
(15) There is not much he can do about the asinine point-scoring style; one can only hope that at some point the frontbenches start to realise how much damage they're doing to themselves, never mind to politics generally.
(16) In comparison with the horse, the asinine nasopharynx is markedly constricted in its middle part and the laryngeal airway has a more acute angulation relative to the nasopharynx.
(17) Of all the asinine interventions made by the English establishment in the Polanski affair, this was the worst.
(18) Proteins of purified virions of equine herpesvirus 4 (EHV-4; equine rhinopneumonitis), EHV-1 (equine abortion virus) and asinine herpesvirus 3 (AHV-3) were compared by metabolic labelling with [35S]methionine or [14C]glucosamine during growth of low passage virus in natural host cells (horse or donkey) and high passage virus in an appropriate cell line and analysis by SDS-PAGE.
(19) Lastly, it was asinine not to understand that private capital demands financial returns well above the cost of capital available to the low-risk state.
(20) Elena V (@amariselv) @HunterFelt I will not refrain from expressing my thoughts about pitchers hitting: It's asinine.
Inane
Definition:
(a.) Without contents; empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; characterless; useless.
(n.) That which is void or empty.
Example Sentences:
(1) He throws confessions about his love of guns or his lust for violence into restaurant conversations, but his inanely sophisticated companions carry on conversing about the varieties of sushi or the use of fur by leading designers.
(2) Indeed, the internet’s troll culture developed, at least in part, as a response to the inane “participation” offered by online marketers.
(3) The dialogue is perfect: the broker waxes inanely on ("A lovely space"), and the prospective buyers ooze gratitude at being granted a viewing.
(4) She reminds me of the time David was ridiculed for being photographed grinning inanely with a banana.
(5) This decade, on the other hand, has been relatively lax when it comes to pumping out neuron-destroying musical inanity.
(6) The internet has been awash with rumours, the inane chirping of the Twitter ranks rising slowly to a roar.
(7) Nobody, not even Geoff Boycott, cares about such inane guff.
(8) A sublime opener was followed by the inane offence that triggered Russia's comeback for an ominous victory.
(9) Jean-Paul Belmondo disrupts a conventional household in À Double Tour (Web of Passion, 1959) by playing inane practical jokes and completely disregarding table manners.
(10) This may be the only way to early counteract medically inane causal relationship being presented by the relative's advocate.
(11) One moment Mor was drawing a foul from Pavel Kaderabek and Selcuk Inan was hitting the wall from the free-kick, the next Kaderabek was in on Babacan’s goal and firing in a shot that was deflected wide for a corner.
(12) In the minds of the kind of people who bring Talking Heads CDs to parties, their apparent popularity doubtless brings to mind Nietzschean notions of the inanity of the herd and the eternal attraction of bad art.
(13) TURKEY Fatih Terim, now in his third spell as Turkey manager, can call on an extraordinarily technically gifted midfield, with the holding midfielder Selcuk Inan allowing Barcelona’s Arda Turan and the Leverkusen free-kick specialist Hakan Calhanoglu to attack.
(14) "Inane stuff about what twits are having for breakfast.
(15) Before you write off digital stickers as inane, they are a decent moneyspinner for LINE: of the $58m the company made in sales in the first quarter of 2013, half came from selling games and 30%, or roughly $17m, from sales of its 8,000 different stickers.
(16) There were also bad and inane films - playing Chinese in Dragon Seed (1944); helpless in Without Love (1945) and The Sea Of Grass (1947), both with Tracy; trying to be Clara Schumann in Song Of Love (1947); and in Vincente Minnelli's neurotic Undercurrent (1946).
(17) As holidays are taken and the inane rituals of party conferences loom, too many politicians and commentators seem to have fallen for a comfy bit of groupthink: that what with the odd poor poll showing and this sudden outbreak of silence, the menace has receded and we have passed “peak Ukip”.
(18) Yes, where I live we would all appreciate a better commute – which, since I have this opportunity to address you on the subject, would include the summary dismissal of the people who inflict those inane recorded announcements about holding on to our luggage, standing behind the yellow line, using the lifts when carrying heavy items, avoiding slipping over when it has been frosty overnight, and reading the safety instructions before travelling.
(19) 'An inane jumble': Trump foreign policy splits GOP on issue party once agreed on Read more Steps away from the chaos, Democrats at the US Capitol used the opportunity to portray Republicans as belonging to the “Party of Trump”.
(20) ■ "Wittering inanity", "Fatuous", "Pass the jubilee sickbag".