unasinous
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[edit]unasinous (not comparable)
- Sharing the same amount of stupidity; displaying ignorance or foolishness by all.
- 1880, George Sylvester Morris, British Thought and Thinkers, page 164:
- Hobbes entitles his sixth "Lesson," "Of Manners," and prostrates his adversaries with the following parting shot (taking care to italicize the complimentary epithets employed — italics were in great requisition in those days): "So go your ways, you Uncivil Ellesiastics, Inhuman Divines, Dedoctors of morality, Unasinous Colleagues, Egregious pair of Issachars, most wretched Vindices and Indices Academiarum [Hobbes* fire was frequently directed against the universities]; and remember Vespasian's law, that it is uncivil to give ill language first, but civil and lawful to return it."
- 1966, Dale L. Plank, Pasternak's lyric: a study of sound and imagery, page 62:
- The translators and commentators seem to be unasinous in giving us two, apparently because the poet shouts "Wait!" at about the point where the anatomy lesson gets a little too precious.
- 1990, David Brin, Earth, page 254:
- Here were representatives of three different, unasinous points of view, each deeply opposed to the others, and yet all attacking her!
- Lighting your hands on fire and lighting your feet on fire are unasinous.