jackass
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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
“Me and her kept up after my husband left me. August was the only one of his family who knew what a sorry jackass he was.”
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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“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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