Definitions
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- adjective colloquial Oriented
backwards , particularly after amishap . - adjective idiomatic, colloquial Hopelessly
misguided ; having taken the utterly wrong choice. - adverb colloquial Moving backwards, that is,
rear end first. - adverb idiomatic, colloquial In a hopelessly misguided manner.
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Examples
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On another occasion he described him as "an ass-backwards Sherlock Holmes".
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ACORN, despite the videos, had done nothing wrong, other than helping poor people -- a mortal trespass in the ass-backwards world of far-right conservatives who, like their self-proclaimed spiritual guide, Jesus of Nazareth, are evidently opposed to helping poor people.
Bob Cesca: The Republican War Against Women Bob Cesca 2011
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On another occasion he described him as "an ass-backwards Sherlock Holmes".
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I'm reading your blog backwards (or ass-backwards, as it were), so I just got here today, the 27th, which makes keeping one's resolutions for December much easier.
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ACORN, despite the videos, had done nothing wrong, other than helping poor people -- a mortal trespass in the ass-backwards world of far-right conservatives who, like their self-proclaimed spiritual guide, Jesus of Nazareth, are evidently opposed to helping poor people.
Bob Cesca: The Republican War Against Women Bob Cesca 2011
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I don't know about you, but it seems to me we've got our carbon policy ass-backwards.
Jeffrey Rubin: Better to Charge for Emissions Than Ban New Coal Plants Jeffrey Rubin 2010
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This is the most ass-backwards way of doing science that I have ever heard of.
Ph.D. Pencil Pusher Candid Engineer 2009
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ACORN, despite the videos, had done nothing wrong, other than helping poor people -- a mortal trespass in the ass-backwards world of far-right conservatives who, like their self-proclaimed spiritual guide, Jesus of Nazareth, are evidently opposed to helping poor people.
Bob Cesca: The Republican War Against Women Bob Cesca 2011
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It got so ass-backwards that the other day Ben Nelson, who successfully held out for anti-abortion language and a sweetheart deal for Nebraska's Medicaid as the price of his vote, found himself facing a wholesale voter backlash.
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These ideologies, so fanatically nursed, are best described as spectacularly ass-backwards (to borrow an appalling, phlegmatic phrase).
Qanta Ahmed, MD: The Adventures of Itamar Marcus and the Hamas Bunny: Palestine at Play 2010
petitfour commented on the word ass-backwards
what L's emotions are
April 3, 2007