as in lunatic
one having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind
his insistence that aliens were monitoring his thoughts forced us to conclude that he was in fact a loony
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as in stupid
showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment
that's got to be the looniest idea I've ever heard
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as in psychotic
having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind
I probably sound like a loony talking to myself like I do
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Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2023
These people believe the world is full of bad information — biased news, out-of-touch punditry, loony conspiracy theories.
—Kevin Roose, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
One was prepared to look past Rodgers’s loony anti-vax views, his U.F.O. hysterias—and for that matter past the Jets owner Woody Johnson’s Trumpite leanings—in preparation for this season of hope, and then . .
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2023
Accompanied by their parents, these hypernerdy whiz kids are rousingly welcomed by the event’s emcee, a five-star general played impeccably by Jeffrey Wright, whose rigorous diction is the loony height of military officialese.
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2023
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As an impressionist, Carvey's style was more, well, impressionist — his gabbling, discursive George H.W. Bush spinning out further and further while remaining resolutely tethered to some measure of loony reality.
—Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2023
These people believe the world is full of bad information — biased news, out-of-touch punditry, loony conspiracy theories.
—Kevin Roose, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
One was prepared to look past Rodgers’s loony anti-vax views, his U.F.O. hysterias—and for that matter past the Jets owner Woody Johnson’s Trumpite leanings—in preparation for this season of hope, and then . .
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2023
Accompanied by their parents, these hypernerdy whiz kids are rousingly welcomed by the event’s emcee, a five-star general played impeccably by Jeffrey Wright, whose rigorous diction is the loony height of military officialese.
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2023
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“Loony.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loony. Accessed 18 Sep. 2024.
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