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Recent Examples of batty After the batty banter, Ted admitted that he was frustrated because Pellegrini came into his brother Eddie’s diner, and now the mobster has Eddie and Ted’s girlfriend scared. Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 16 Mar. 2025 The season takes new turns while remaining the most ambitious, batty and all-out pleasurable show on TV, an M.C. Escher maze whose plot convolutions never get in the way of its voice, heart and sense of humor. James Poniewozik, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025 Hot on the heels of 2022’s brilliantly batty tech-slasher and this year’s Afraid is Subservience, which is now streaming on Netflix. Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2024 Guillermo Del Toro’s debut film is a radical departure from Dracula and his batty ilk, as vampirism is reimagined as a side effect of the immortality granted by a wondrous mechanism created by a 16th-century alchemist. James Grebey, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for batty
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Adjective
  • Whether these experienced hands can keep up with their mad scientists is less clear.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • David’s flagship product is an almost Frankensteinian creation, more mad scientist than culinary.
    Ashley Lutz, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Austin Butler’s character, the psychotic conspiracy theorist, was hysterical.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025
  • This might sound ridiculous to anyone outside the hive, but Swift actively encourages this kind of analysis and listicle-bait with borderline psychotic schemes.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The outpouring of people on social media was insane.
    Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The trailer teases spicy fights, insane games, and twists.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Many teams use crazy pre-snap motion to distract defenses, or rely on versatile, mobile quarterbacks to figure the chaos out.
    Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The fans are going crazy, 50,000.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Plus, Jeremiah had to still be winded by busting out that extended dance remix of his maniacal villain laugh from back on the beach.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
  • In a desperate attempt to stop The Entity, President Erika Sloane (Angela Bassett) locates Ethan, who is now a rogue agent, and asks him to achieve the impossible by finding a way to shut the maniacal AI down.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But, God, to be able to play a Pablo Escobar who was just petty and wanted friends, there was something so stupid and so hilarious about that to me.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Keaton continued to play oddballs with a peculiar way of talking, though none were trivial or stupid.
    Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Spread nuts in a single layer on a baking sheet.
    Kathryn Gregory, Louisville Courier Journal, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Having those two guys next to each other on the Broncos' defensive line and locked up for four years is nuts.
    Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Misiorowski had made Edman look foolish in their first matchup, getting the infielder to swing through a wicked curveball.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Orús and Lizaso believe that the AI arms race is foolish.
    Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025

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“Batty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/batty. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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