unasinous

unasinous

English

Adjective

unasinous (not comparable)

1. 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.