jackassery
English
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editjackassery (usually uncountable, plural jackasseries)
- The foolish or obnoxious behaviour of a jackass.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "When a Man Murders...", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, →ISBN, page 134:
- […] the hypothesis that Karnow had made a new will deserved a little exploration. To ask any of you about it would of course have been jackassery.
- 2022, Sen. Ben Sasse, during Ketanji Brown Jackson's SCOTUS confirmation hearings
- We should recognize that the jackassery we often see around here is partly because of people mugging for short-term camera opportunities.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "When a Man Murders...", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, →ISBN, page 134: