jackass

Example Sentences

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An actor playing a heightened, jackass version of himself and flexing improv muscles we never knew he had?

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2023

"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

My mother says he's a jackass of all trades, and a master of none.

From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds