Contemptible fool

Usage examples of jackass.

Thomas, his arm quickly numbing, dropped the case on the 207 Rita Clay Estrada hood of the car and turned around to face the jackass.

As Heather headed for the bar, already dialing her cell phone, he sat down next to Lucy and across from Syd and felt like a complete jackass.

I was at home on a brig, whether full-rigged or jackass: consequently I was equally easy on a schooner or a barkentine or a ship.

The big mollyhawks of New Zealand, the laughing gulls of California, that awaken you at dawn and are things never forgotten, cannot compare with these strange and homely and humorous jackasses of the Australian woods.

His face showed the effects of a sleepless night, but he was already refortified with jackass brandy for the ordeals of the day, and was in nowise stupid.

Spare not, young chip, or else, the jackasses in the Australian bush will breed as numerous as the locusts in the African desert.

The fire was lightless, yet he could see more plainly, but the cause was not manifest, till from the myalls quite close the jackasses chorused.

Kate had wanted to wait and make a proper entrance, announced by some jackass with a booming voice who lived for stopping the proceedings dead while bellowing the name of every new arrival.

At the university, one Holy Saturday, he'd tried to apply a jackass cure to uncertainty: he went into the toilet of a bar, perfectly sober, threw some gunpowder on a chancre, and lighted it.

No, he had started his walk somewhere else, he could not remember where, but it was ten miles away, no, twenty-five miles away, some town, and the people in that town were no-good jackass asswipes.

To what extent civilization is retarded by the laughing jackasses, the empty-minded belittlers?

We were desperate--would take horses, jackasses, cameleopards, kangaroos--any thing.

There were a Papuan lory, a sulphur-crested cockatoo, the chiffchaff and kookaburra bird, laughing jackass and motmot, chachalaca, drongo and poor old puffin.

At the table up front, Alda Quimby was still trying to keep from looking like a jackass.

Why, when he said that Johnnie was cheatin' and acted like such a jackass?