unasinousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

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!