¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Asininely
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Asininely
Literary usage of Asininely
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1831)
"... or describe a race, And damn the Proctor with a solemn face, Swear nonsense
wit, and intellect a sin, Loll o'er the wine, and asininely grin ! ..."
2. The American Stage of To-day by Walter Prichard Eaton (1908)
"The " tired American business man" (who evidently has also a weary wife) has
prattled asininely for some time — or somebody has prattled for him — that he ..."
3. Free Opinions, Freely Expressed on Certain Phases of Modern Social Life and by MARIE. CORELLI (1905)
"... on the backs of uncultured and illiterate persons, who, bowed down like asses
beneath the golden burden, are asininely ignorant of its highest uses. ..."
4. The Autobiography of a Happy Woman (1914)
"Because I had been colossally, impenetrably, asininely, hugely, grotesquely,
thickly stupid! That the educational system helped my stupidity and indurated ..."
Other Resources:
