asinine

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Such policies are not only asinine, they are — and here I have found another appropriate place for the buzz word of the decade — counterproductive: the energies expended on vengeance are entirely wasted and should be channeled to changing the present system to ensure that they are not continued.

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  1. adjective Utterly stupid or silly: asinine behavior.
  2. adjective Of, relating to, or resembling an ass.

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  • Such policies are not only asinine, they are — and here I have found another appropriate place for the buzz word of the decade — counterproductive: the energies expended on vengeance are entirely wasted and should be channeled to changing the present system to ensure that they are not continued. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 2
  • Alternatively should I talk about Asin, the Latin root of the English word "asinine" whose hyper-animated innocent girl routine was so grating that I was cheering on Ghajini and his sledgehammer to put me out my misery? —  Random Thoughts of a Demented Mind
  • Unfortunately the run on the Ho-Pak's spilling over to other banks and that's very bad for Hong Kong and also, I think, bad for the People's Republic of China. " —  Noble House
  • "Something asinine, probably life threatening, and guaranteed to make me angry every time I remember it for the rest of my life. —  Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
  • I said. —  Dawn's Wicked Stepsister
 

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  1. Latin asinīnus, of an ass, from asinus, ass.

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  1. from Latin asininus, from asinus, an ass: see ass.
 

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/ˈæsɪnaɪn/
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