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as in lunatics
a person having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind
discovered some real crazies in our family tree
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as in revolutionaries
a person who favors rapid and sweeping changes especially in laws and methods of government
beleaguered government officials tried to dismiss the protesters as a bunch of crazies
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Recent Examples of crazies
Actually, there was a good reason, and the reason was that those crazies over at CBS were airing this season up to SIX NIGHTS A WEEK!
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Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 4 June 2026
Had enough listening to crazies.
—Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2026
There were lots of crazies wandering around.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2026
The cool-kid leftist pod for listeners intrigued enough to wade through the Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy sandbox, but who didn’t want to wade through the actual crazies, has become an anchor for a thriving alt-media ecosystem that’s long been ready for a skeptical, leftward, socialist-curious turn.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2025
That means, at times, policing its own—and not letting the crazies run the asylum.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 4 June 2026
Had enough listening to crazies.
—Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2026
There were lots of crazies wandering around.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2026
The cool-kid leftist pod for listeners intrigued enough to wade through the Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy sandbox, but who didn’t want to wade through the actual crazies, has become an anchor for a thriving alt-media ecosystem that’s long been ready for a skeptical, leftward, socialist-curious turn.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2025
That means, at times, policing its own—and not letting the crazies run the asylum.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crazies
Noun
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The lunatics are running the asylum.—
Eugenie Brinkema,
ARTnews.com,
14 June 2026
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Tony Hale, Alia Shawkat, Michael Cera, Will Arnett and other lunatics round out the cast.—
Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 June 2026
Noun
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Some imagery on the shirt, depicting Haitian revolutionaries from the early 1800s, was declared political and therefore not allowed, having fallen foul of FIFA’s often quite stringent rules around kits at World Cups.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
17 June 2026
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Both then and now, targeting revolutionaries like Dessalines has supported that goal.—
Julia Gaffield,
The Conversation,
15 June 2026
Noun
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Because Sidney Prescott, now Evans, exists only in relationship to Ghostface, the costume worn by many different knife-wielding maniacs over the years, starting with her high school boyfriend.—
Katie Walsh,
Twin Cities,
3 Mar. 2026
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Because Sidney Prescott, now Evans, exists only in relationship to Ghostface, the costume worn by many different knife-wielding maniacs over the years, starting with her high school boyfriend.—
Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
27 Feb. 2026
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The actor got his start on Family Ties, an '80s sitcom about the Keaton family, whose matriarch and patriarch were once 1960s radicals now attempting to raise their Reagan-era children in suburbia.—
Rebecca Aizin,
PEOPLE,
9 June 2026
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Increasingly, however, that tent seems to have room for radicals and ideological extremists while pushing out Democrats who think independently.—
Doug Friednash,
Denver Post,
3 June 2026
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This game makes fools of us all.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
16 June 2026
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The American media look here like fools, as does the conspiratorial mirror image imagining a vast secret US operation.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
15 June 2026
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Opportunists like the daycare group, which was selling weapons, and extremists — not the hobbyists.—
Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
17 June 2026
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Many of these decisions were made so Netanyahu could retain the support of the far-right extremists keeping him in power and avoid a possible jail sentence on corruption charges.—
Thomas L. Friedman,
Mercury News,
16 June 2026
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Anthropic has said Mythos represents a danger to the public because of its ability to find bugs in computer code, which could be exploited by malicious actors.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
13 June 2026
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However, several beneficial bugs prey on milkweed aphids, including ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
13 June 2026
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“Crazies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crazies. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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