Definition of BATTY

Examples of batty in a Sentence

a batty old lady who lives with 100 cats

Recent Examples on the Web Yet Dujardin’s commitment to his batty character is unflinching. — Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, "Indie Focus: A lost voice returns with ‘The Half of It’," 1 May 2020 Yet Dujardin’s commitment to his batty character is unflinching. — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, "‘Deerskin’ Review: Swayed by Suede," 30 Apr. 2020 If a bat virus similar to RaTG13 got into an animal already infected with a coronavirus which boasted an RBD better suited to infecting humans, a basically batty virus with a more human-attuned RBD might well arise. — The Economist, "The origin of covid-19 The pieces of the puzzle of covid-19’s origin are coming to light," 2 May 2020 The Batty caves are not now notably batty but were undeniably home to batty occupants around 1964. — John Phillips, Car and Driver, "Tested: 1995 Land Rover Defender 90 Goes Nowhere, Man," 24 Mar. 2020 There’s no shortage of creatively batty jokes, all inspired by popularly festive motifs like witches, skeletons, and ghosts, oh my! — Blair Donovan, Country Living, "64 Halloween Puns for Giving All Your Ghoul Friends a Good Cackle," 18 July 2019 Of course, the spectre of a batty old man with a cell phone has taken on geopolitical significance in 2019, when a Presidential tweet has the power to jolt markets and disrupt the global order. — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, "Rudy Giuliani and the Butt-Dialler Within All of Us," 5 Nov. 2019 Even in a White House system engineered to respond quickly and authoritatively to a president’s whims, questions, or orders, no one knew what to do with an idea so obviously batty. — Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, "America's Decades-Old Obsession With Nuking Hurricanes (and More)," 26 Aug. 2019 For nearly a century, critics have accused Boas and his successors of everything from justifying immorality to furthering the batty idea that the United States might not be the greatest country that has ever existed. — Charles King, Washington Post, "The anthropologists who upended the ‘science’ of white supremacy," 2 Aug. 2019

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“Batty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/batty. Accessed 29 May. 2020.

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