The phrase "asinine about" can be correct and usable in written English.
It means to act in a foolish or ridiculous manner. Example: The politician's speech was full of empty promises and asinine about the state of the economy.
No one mentioned the asinine argument about the debt ceiling.
I wouldn't charge around Argentina spewing asinine triumphalism about some long-gone war.
His famously asinine question about wives and servants was asked rhetorically and with utter sincerity.
The National Review led off an editorial on the subject Tuesday by saying, "Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, and Jon Huntsman seem to be engaged in a perverse contest to be the Republican presidential candidate to say the most asinine thing about Mitt Romney's tenure at Bain Capital….
The post, which opened with the line "Asinine joke about how this IPO isn't the kind of discount you'd find on the Groupon site itself.
Despite your asinine question about Christina, it is still a pleasure to be here with you.
Raising the question draws one into one of the most invidious and asinine debates about the deaths of black men at the hands of police officers in recent years.
But the show's ridiculousness became a much more bitter pill to swallow as Juan Pablo's asinine comments about his suitors' hotness and how he wants the girls "to know who he is" felt inextricably connected to his newly-revealed bigotry.
Look, this is not my child; I didn't carry her in my being and nourish her and feel her grow; I didn't watch her learn to walk and cringe when she fell or felt proud when she learned something new, but I did these things with my own daughter, so for the life of me, I can't imagine what it must feel like to have something so asinine said about her.
Further, the idea that restricting movie rentals for 28 days would lead to more sales (what this is really all about) is asinine.
