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Definition of Jackassery
1. [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jackassery
| jackarooesse jackarooesses jackarooing jackaroos jackarse jackarses jackboot jackbooted jackboots jackdaw | jackdaws jacked jacked off jacked up jackeen jackeens jacker jackeroo |
Literary usage of Jackassery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... silliness, jackassery (contemptuous), fatuity, fatuousness (chiefly the
quality); spec. lunacy, inanity, vanity, dotage, ..."
2. Books on the Table by Edmund Gosse (1921)
"... of their virtuous prosperity, by a preacher who told them that England was
going down to the Devil, and that society was just a confusion of jackassery. ..."
3. New Letters of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle (1904)
"Here, in that Nation Newspaper which I send you to-day, is some balderdash of
O'Con- nell's on the subject: mere jackassery; ..."
4. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Carlyle: With Personal by Richard Herne Shepherd, Charles Norris Williamson (1881)
"There is such an outpouring of disloyal platitudes, and vocal jackassery, of
every figure, in these times, as quite disgusts one with the pen, ..."
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