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- adjective Alternative spelling of
asinine .
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Examples
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It's opinion, and just because someone doesn't share yours doesn't make them "assinine" or a Flat Earther.
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That is exactly the kind of assinine thinking that has caused this country's space policy to go off kilter in the first damned place!
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Slash says stopping construction midway through the project would be "assinine," while in an unguarded moment, White admits she's "pissed off."
Brenda Scott Royce: Odd Couple at the Zoo: Slash and Betty White 2009
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It'll be interesting to see how this plays out and what kind of assinine comments arise from the debate.
Brownstoner 2009
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I think the word we are all looking for is "assinine".
unknown title Charles J. Dean -- The Birmingham News 2009
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A plea from this author friend ... don't judge the whole state and all its residents by our completely idiotic, assinine, time-wasting, busy-work legislature!
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Personally, I think it is assinine to try to slit the throat of a wounded deer.
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Personally, I think it is assinine to try to slit the throat of a wounded deer.
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For starters they would run around in circles of insanity trying to reattach their empty heads to their neckless shoulders shouting assinine comments about liberals while trying to stop their drooling.
Think Progress » National Review ‘symposium’ on black unemployment has no black participants. 2010
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Go away and continue to make completely assinine remarks, but please leave us and the NFL out of it.
chelster commented on the word assinine
Come on, Wiktionary: "Alternative spelling of 'asinine,'" my foot! As any writer, editor, copyeditor, proofreader, English teacher, and decent dictionary will tell you, "There is no 'ass' in 'asinine.'" This takes descriptivism to new and asinine heights.
March 17, 2011
bilby commented on the word assinine
Quite unlike the steam-driven frumpage of prescriptivism, of course.
Assinine for sardonic effect looks like a winner to me, although 'alternative spelling' is not an adequate peg for such usage.
March 17, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word assinine
How embareassing.
March 17, 2011