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narrow-assed

narrow-assed adjective: synonym of half-assed (“Poorly or incompetently done; desultory”).

Adjective

narrow-assed (comparative more narrow-assed, superlative most narrow-assed)

  1. (slang, vulgar) Synonym of half-assed (“Poorly or incompetently done; desultory”).
    • What they chose to do with it is unknown, but there is one thing the entire world knows, and that is the fact that Ahmadinejad will do just about anything to keep his narrow-assed, narrow-minded, underhanded, erroneous, grubby, gluttonous hands in the cookie jar.2011, Bryian K. Revoner, edited by iUniverse, The Fear of Being Challenged, →ISBN, page 195
    Synonyms:
    half-assed

Synonyms of narrow-assed

Forms of narrow-assed

comparativemore narrow-assed
superlativemost narrow-assed

Questions about narrow-assed

What does narrow-assed mean?
Narrow-assed means synonym of half-assed (“Poorly or incompetently done; desultory”).
What part of speech is narrow-assed?
Narrow-assed is an adjective.

Words near narrow-assed in the dictionary

  1. narrow transcriptions
  2. narrow up
  3. narrow work
  4. narrow-angle lens
  5. narrow-angle lenses
  6. narrow-assed
  7. narrow-banded dartwhite
  8. narrow-bellied seahorse
  9. narrow-bellied seahorses
  10. narrow-cut
  11. narrow-fisted

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