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Answer for the clue "Stupid ", 7 letters:
asinine
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Word definitions for asinine in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "obstinate, stupid," from Latin asininus "stupid," literally "like an ass," from asinus "ass," also "dolt, blockhead" (see ass (n.1)). The literal sense in English is recorded from 1620s.
Usage examples of asinine.
A pathetic simpleton who was asinine enough to think his people deserved to survive.
The asinine relief that I had shaved my legs lifted through me and was gone.
I would fain tickle his long ears with ribald rhyme, and hearken to the barbarous braying forth of his asinine reflections!
The food and liquor were splendid and nothing banal, boring or asinine was said.
Kate slapped her hand over her mouth as she realized how utterly asinine that sounded.
I said, and then, as we approached the Clinic, I felt that sinking feeling of having to deal with these husbandless hypertensive LOLs in NAD with their asinine demands for my care, and I groaned.
This twist made him partial to astrology, hollow-earth notions, Lemuria, pyramidology, phrenology, Vedanta, black magic, Koresanity, Theosophy, Rosicrucianism, crystalline atoms, lunar farming, Atlantis, and a long list of similar asininitiesthe more asinine the better.
You who offer nothing but asinine romps, improbable coincidences, mistaken identity, and trite screen-scenes featuring wayward husbands caught hiding from avenging wives, all this crammed into three frantic acts of babble and confusion!
The hope is to acquire such knowledge before Commonwealth or Church scientists can get to it and do something asinine, like declare it freely available for the public good.
And his three current companions clearly did not realize what danger they were courting each time they cracked another asinine joke.
What an asinine thing for old Chapman to send an unprotected girl over here into the wilds of Brooklyn .
We will all remember that if those asinine questions hadn't been asked of millions of travelers day in day out year after year, enragingly stupid every time, nineteen murderous hijackers might have boarded four separate commercial jets in America almost simultaneously one morning.
Also, it weeded out the flustery hearts before they had an opportunity to do something asinine in the middle of a busy hour.
I would never demand, as Lucy does, that Jack take me to whatever asinine teen gross-out movie is currently popular with the sixteen to twenty-four crowd.
Young fellow, you remember this: old Andrew Johnson got impeached by the House, but there was no twothirds against him in the Senate, and contradicting the asinine House, the Senate set Andrew Johnson free.