Sentence examples for Asinine from inspiring English sources
The word 'Asinine' is correct and usable in written English
It is an adjective that means "foolish, stupid, and absurd," and can be used in any formal or informal context. Example sentence: His asinine decision to invest in a pyramid scheme cost him his savings.
adjective
Failing to exercise intelligence or judgment; ridiculously below average rationality.
"If you think the music is asinine, that's OK, but don't judge music by class".
(So did Mr Safire; though asinine alliteration was best avoided, when pounding out the punditry he could rarely resist).
The nightmare vision of Big Brother still helps check thoughtless enthusiasm for surveillance; though ironically, given Orwell's loathing of cliché an asinine television show has drawn some of its power.
But changes to the stance of monetary policy are determined by how the economy performs relative to expectations, which currently incorporate America's asinine fiscal policy.
The boss of Wells Fargo has called the solvency tests "asinine".
He treated a congressional hearing like an undergraduate seminar at Princeton, and patiently explained complex problems, sometimes in response to asinine questions.
"I almost went down on my knees to beg Herbert Hoover to veto the asinine Hawley-Smoot Tariff," he recalled.
Give the same type a TV programme, and suddenly his every asinine comment becomes a mini-typhoon of media opinion and outrage.
Stephen Mangan is the Platonic ideal as Bertie Wooster, as is clear from the moment he clocks the audience and bares his teeth in the most adorably asinine and good-natured grin in captivity.
Without spoiling it for the uninitiated, Kelly sets out to capture the bland but chipper, asinine manner of the Eighties and Nineties US family sitcoms that buzz forever in the background of a generation's childhood.
