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jackass

[jak-as] / ˈdʒækˌæs /


NOUN
(vulgar) contemptible, foolish person
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As the politician Sam Rayburn famously said: “Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2024

"Any jackass can kick over a lantern and burn down a bar. It takes a carpenter to build one - we want to be on the side of the carpenter," Roemer told Reuters.

From Reuters ● Nov. 9, 2022

Mr. Fieri proceeded to make something he calls the jackass roll — rice, pork butt, fries and avocado — so named, he said, because a friend told him he looked like a jackass preparing it.

From New York Times ● May 23, 2022

Is this first, experimental evening doomed to end in us jackass “theater critics” making fun of technical glitches and related awkwardness?

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2020

He was still standing there, smiling like the most pleased jackass.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben

“Before I came down with the virus, I was one of those jackasses who thought the virus would disappear the day after the election. I was one of those conspiracy theorists,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2021

And I know my sister and I were jackasses who sometimes deserved to be yelled at.

From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2020

To be clear, I'm glad the police didn't do anything to the jackasses who showed up to protest the lockdowns.

From Salon ● May 27, 2020

But, no, it turns out that his corrective advice to wallflowers and jackasses is considerably more durable.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2017

If it came up heads, it simply meant that the three men would have to line up in a row and make jackasses of themselves once again in front of the live television cameras.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger




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