(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.
Vacuous
Definition:
(a.) Empty; unfilled; void; vacant.
Example Sentences:
(1) A different pattern was observed in the open cage test, where both neuroleptic groups showed significant increases in vacuous OMs during drug administration which rapidly became attenuated upon drug withdrawal.
(2) Vacuous chewing movements in rats may be an animal analogue of the human motor disorder, tardive dyskinesia.
(3) Buckman will also accuse the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, of responding to growing problems in the NHS with "cheap soundbites and vacuous political point scoring", such as wrongly blaming GPs and out-of-hours services for rising attendances at A&E units.
(4) This criticism can be extended of course to other forms of online communities, such as Facebook, where contact-less friendships are reduced to pokes, LOLs, and vacuous innuendos.
(5) Previous studies have shown that the emergence of spontaneous dyskinetic behaviors, such as vacuous chewing movements, following several months of neuroleptic treatment in the rat, is correlated with depletion of nigral GABA.
(6) Vacuous jaw movements that resemble chewing were produced by dopamine depletion in the ventrolateral striatum, but not the anteroventromedial or dorsolateral striatum.
(7) And one might nod as one hears banal and vacuous philosophical themes such as "change begins with you" or "every little thing helps".
(8) A dose-related increase in vacuous chewing was induced by injections of pilocarpine in the ventrolateral but not the ventromedial striatum.
(9) The announcement was dismissed as window dressing by the shadow home office minister Lady Smith, and as "vacuous and cynical posturing" by Steven Woolfe, a Ukip immigration spokesman.
(10) Hedonistic, vacuous, self-important and delusional.
(11) The Guardian's Charlie Brooker created the character of Nathan Barley , a vacuous media playboy, back in 1999, around the same time the east London fanzine The Shoreditch Twat began published its first edition.
(12) The crest of mitochondria was blur, coalescent and vacuous.
(13) I suspect a lot of people will write Kim Kardashian’s Hollywood off as a vacuous game about a vacuous person, using a cynical business model that preys on stupid players who wouldn’t know a “proper game” if it snogged them on the pillion.
(14) In contrast, bilateral microinfusions of muscimol into the nigrocollicular target region, in the deep layers of superior colliculus, blocked elicitation of gnawing by intranigral muscimol, but completely spared elicitation of vacuous chewing movements by intranigral isoniazid.
(15) In an era when art has increasingly become a vacuous wealth statement or part of an investment portfolio, Banksy continues to be seen by many as a pomposity-pricking man of the people.
(16) The influence of stressful experiences on the development of vacuous chewing movements (VCM) was investigated in non-medicated rats.
(17) Intranigral infusion of GABA agonists causes stereotyped licking and gnawing in rats, while intranigral GABA antagonists produce vacuous chewing movements.
(18) The ECC report: "DECC's stated objectives for reforming the electricity market are uncontentious but vacuous.
(19) Almost as vacuous as Clegg's contribution to the leadership debates, you might think.
(20) The development of vacuous chewing movements (VCMs), and changes in glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) and choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) activities in extrapyramidal nuclei were examined in rats treated chronically with neuroleptics.