asininity

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Noun
  • Ed brings great depth and heart to the man in charge of safety for this massive jump, an island of reason in a sea of insanity.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
  • At trial, Crawford's attorneys acknowledged his guilt to lay the groundwork for an insanity defense, even though that's not how Crawford wanted to handle the case, according to reporting by the Mississippi Clarion Ledger, part of the USA TODAY Network.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Orphan Master’s Son, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2013, follows a North Korean man struggling to survive amid the cruelty and madness of a modern totalitarian regime.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • No orgies, no drug madness, no trouble with the law.
    Touré, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Advertisement Aster keenly satirizes Joe’s idiocy in the face of social upheaval through the iconography of Westerns.
    Robert Daniels, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
  • But my naivete and idiocy about what this was going to take was staggering to me just six months later.
    Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Shot over two days with striking simplicity, the film reflects Alshamsi’s gift for emotional nuance and cultural reflection.
    Essie Assibu, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
  • This family boat ride is the kind that can be easily overlooked due to its simplicity.
    Zachary Laks, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Protesters have slammed the notions and multiple attendees wore inflatable frog and animal costumes to point to the absurdity of the claims of danger.
    Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 18 Oct. 2025
  • These acts of radical playfulness—the inflatable dance parties, the music, the absurdity—have become part of the city’s moral vocabulary.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Pynchon’s absurdism is his way of grappling with and undermining the awful too-muchness and stupidity of it all — especially of the American project and its many tentacles.
    Jack Denton, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The only reason for this incessant stupidity?
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But that inanity, that ridiculousness is embedded in the story.
    Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2025
  • For the past four years, Honan has been a worm in Adams’s apple, scoring scoop after scoop about the dramas, inanities, and intrigues of his administration.
    Eric Lach, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
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“Asininity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/asininity. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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