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Example sentences for "asinine"

Lexicographically close words:
asiento; asile; asimismo; asin; asini; asino; asis; ask; askance; askant
  1. Owing to the asinine mulishness of Sarah--" Here an interruption occurred.

  2. Pug has already spoken of the ‘liberal ears’ of his asinine master.

  3. It is all very easy for you, middle-aged reader, sitting over this page in the broad daylight, to call me by all manner of asinine and anserine unchristian names, because I had these fancies running through my head.

  4. Essay to form or reform character either with the "billy" and billingsgate, or with padding and coddling, and the result will reflect the asinine tools employed.

  5. Trask in his most asinine tones; but then he was always a tactless fool.

  6. Whilst labouring under this curse, Gandharba-Sena persuaded the King of Dhara to give him a daughter in marriage, but it unfortunately so happened that at the wedding hour he was unable to show himself in any but asinine shape.

  7. I knew the warrior's secret now; I knew the hollow vanity of his rusty trumpery, and despised his asinine complacency.

  8. The Arabs had collected from curiosity's sake to see us off--all except Sheikh bin Nasib, whom I had offended by my asinine opposition to his wishes.

  9. Really, when you came to think of it, it was an asinine sort of proposition.

  10. Why, how in Sam Hill did you ever make such an asinine mistake?

  11. And all because of his asinine convictions, because he thought his ideals were a little higher than other men's, his honesty a little more impeccable than theirs.

  12. I infer from the dispatches that Halliwell was made lord high executioner of the "Karnival"--at least accorded ample space in which to wildly wave his asinine ears.

  13. But if they afterwards tried to recoup their losses by raising prices as they do now, we might get after them with a tax commensurate with their asinine generosity, and keep after them till other concerns got well on their feet.

  14. The Master, hearing the glad racket, did a thoroughly asinine thing.

  15. As he did this he said with a peculiarly asinine air: "That's a bit worse than the other, by Jip!

  16. Didcott stood miserably silent; he had got beyond his depth, and the conviction that his behaviour was asinine was growing more acute.

  17. The idea that something unusual was occurring presently penetrated his asinine brain, and he raised his head and looked.

  18. I speculated, one evening, struck by the simple piety of some asinine remark he had made.

  19. He was as punctiliously honourable in some ways as he was perfidious in others--being amiably asinine in each extreme.

  20. His faith was unshaken--in sheer asinine fatuity it was sublime.

  21. The alleged Democracy under which we live is the most asinine contrivance ever devised by theorists and dreamers.

  22. Yes, in every crowd there is a voice ready to raise that asinine and murderously cruel shout.

  23. This asinine cry lurks ever in the back of the human throat, ready and eager to spring into life at the slightest provocation.

  24. Captain the Honourable Charles Heavyside is a member of the legislature, and eminent in the House for asinine imitations which delight his own, and confuse the other party.

  25. Which, of course, was a manifestly asinine way for a grown man to talk.

  26. Come, cease those asinine cachinations and explain," said Bill, with some irritation.

  27. If it's your whiskey that made him ridiculous, I do not wonder, for its the most catholicon panacea for the diminution of intelligence and propagating of blatant puerility and asinine imbecility extant.

  28. Living his asinine form, he has to wander for some time in great affliction as a spirit.

  29. That son who disregards his father and mother, O king, has to take birth, after leaving off his human form as an animal of the asinine order.

  30. Assuming the asinine form he has to live for ten years.

  31. Assuming that asinine form he has to live for a period of two years and then he meets with death at the edge of a weapon.

  32. Casting off his asinine form, he has next to take birth as an ox, in which state he has to live for seven years.

  33. If a regenerate person, having studied the four Vedas, becomes stupefied by folly and accepts a gift from a fallen man, he has then to take birth in the asinine order.

  34. Casting off in this way his asinine body he has to take birth in his next life as a deer always filled with anxiety (at the thought of foes that may kill him).

  35. That is ovine, bovine, feline, canine, equine or asinine which belongs to that species, irrespective of sex.

  36. He, resurrected from his prolonged lethargy, hunted up a dust-covered tool-chest, and followed me impetuously to his asinine patient.

  37. Then we went on and brought up at a delicious fresh-water well, in front of the Spencer Ranch-house, where I led my asinine quartette in the song of the "Old Oaken Bucket.

  38. When Pod reached the middle of an elegant burst of rhetoric, that animal, true to asinine instinct, pushed a hind foot against the orator's stomach and brought the speech to a finish.

  39. And presently it did go on, and we rolled the asinine snowball into town amid the cheers and laughter of the children, the frightful brays of protestation from the imprisoned donkey, and the dumb consternation of the villagers.

  40. I had hardly anticipated trouble brewing; nothing was so foreign to my thoughts as the possibility of finding two asinine inebriates and a "jagged" canine instead of the sober company I left the evening before.

  41. While a guest at the Tithing House, I found it well stored with asinine and equine luxuries.

  42. My asinine comrades grunted and groaned from nausea, and Cheese complained that we had been cheated of our mid-day meal.

  43. She said she saw lots of donkeys shopping, and began to distribute to a stableful of equine and asinine gossips such a lot of scandal that I was ashamed of her.

  44. How I shudder, when I gaze upon those photographs; my drooping eyes, and my lazy body--all taken together made a picture so perfectly asinine that one can almost detect the bray leaving my mouth.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "asinine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absurd; airy; apish; asinine; banal; batty; beguiled; besotted; blockish; bovine; brainless; childish; cockeyed; crass; crazy; credulous; daft; dazed; dense; dizzy; doltish; doting; dumb; empty; equestrian; equine; fat; fatuous; flaky; flimsy; fond; fool; foolish; fribble; frivolous; frothy; fuddled; futile; goatish; gross; hoggish; hoofed; horsy; idiotic; idle; imbecile; inane; inept; infatuated; insane; light; loony; lumpish; mad; maudlin; meaningless; mindless; mulish; nonsensical; nugatory; nutty; opaque; otiose; piggish; pointless; preposterous; puerile; ruminant; sappy; screwy; senseless; sentimental; shallow; sheepish; silly; simple; slender; slight; sottish; stupid; superficial; swinish; thick; thoughtless; trifling; trite; trivial; ungulate; unteachable; vacuous; vain; vapid; wet; windy; witless; wrongheaded