ass-backwards
3
9.9
- adverb
- /ˈæsˌbækwərdz/
- NSFW
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al revés
- Leave it to your bastard father to give me kids ass-backwards.
- fell ass-backwards
Examples
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To hell with them and their ass-backwards way of living.
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We got it all ass-backwards here.
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With all due respect, you have this ass backwards.
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You mean to tell me it was the media that forced Romney to make that ass-backwards response to Libya?
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Everything is ass-backwards.
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Your logic is ass backwards, your history of the industry and context surrounding the history is somewhere in left field, and your arguments aren't even remotely based on anything relative to the situation.
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They're in the same social circle, so it's pure fluke, but the guy stumbled ass-backwards into having a leg up on the competition.
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It's usually on the lucky, talentless face-painting hacks that somehow fall ass-backwards into success and then come crawling out of the pile of irrelevance that their career inevitably spiraled into, to complain about the fans not buying their third or fourth piece of shit album.
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You're going about this ass-backwards, yet somehow it still works.
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With all due respect, you have this ass-backwards and it doesn't make any sense.
Synonyms
1
9.9
In a backward way that is the opposite of what is normal
Antonyms
How Clumsy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ass-backwards joins ass, a word for 'donkey', and backwards, meaning 'the wrong way round', creating a funny image of something turned the wrong way. So to do something ass-backwards is to do it in a clumsy or wrong order, and it may still work but not in the right way.