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adjective

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Recent Examples of loony
Adjective
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 (taking a similar approach for his recent recurring stint as President Joe Biden). Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2025 Advertisement Here are six movies that advanced the genre in 2024: (Uncredited / Associated Press) ‘Longlegs’ Osgood Perkins wrote and directed this waking nightmare about Maika Monroe’s psychic FBI agent on the trail of ... if not quite a serial killer, the looniest murder influencer ever. Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024 Love Songs holds the hallmarks of an era of heterodox rap-hook writers, deep YouTube exploration, and DIY mash-ups and blends, but the loonier flips restore the ’89 feeling of wondering whether an exciting piece of collagework will one day be sued out of existence. Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2024 One of our region's most famous comics, Michael Hawthorne, built a career from illustrating the loony loudmouth. Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 18 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for loony
Recent Examples of Synonyms for loony
Noun
  • For Mimi Pond, the desire to do a book about the Mitford sisters – six larger-than-life British eccentrics (and one brother) who created a stir in both British and American culture – was obvious.
    Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025
  • For decades, sovereign citizens largely flew under the radar in Australia as relatively harmless eccentrics with a special interest in conspiracy theories.
    Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • And when Sam cooks up a truly stupid scheme to make some quick cash, there’s little doubt a heavy like Mickey isn’t going to like it.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2025
  • There's a fine line between stupid and clever, indeed.
    Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Indeed, the only character from The Office that actually carried over into the new series is Oscar, who serves as the lead accountant for Softees but gets dragooned into reporting and constructing Sudokus for the paper.
    Michael M. Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Instead, deaf viewers see unsynchronized plain white text on a black background and it is left to their imagination to infer those rich and nuanced character tomes essential for storytelling that hearing audiences take for granted.
    Gus Alexiou, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Years later narratives about colonization or slavery or the crazy suffragettes always centre on the light and the justice these people fought for.
    Sara Stridsberg September 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Oh, and that rookie receiver with the two crazy catches?
    Christian Romo, Freep.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This wacko crew was one of the greatest things in the history of television.
    Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • His search takes him to a wacko cult in the desert run by a scamster, and that of course puts the sheriff in deadly danger.
    Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 6 July 2025
Adjective
  • Mea Culpa is Perry at his most knowingly silly, and a throwback to erotic thrillers of decades past.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025
  • For every community of mass-shooter fandoms, there is another that is silly, joyous, productive, or totally harmless.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At the time, de Grey was viewed as a brilliant crackpot.
    Tad Friend, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Dawn rambles on, issuing crackpot theories in the background.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 17 July 2025
Adjective
  • For Mikkelsen and Lie Kaas, who have previously pushed Jensen’s brand of lunatic sincerity in films like Men & Chicken and Riders of Justice, The Last Viking was another chance to dive headfirst into the madness while keeping hold of something real.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
  • However, the team has been a target of lunatic pro-Palestine protesters who have taken issue with the team's name, even though the team has no formal ties to the Israeli government.
    Matt Reigle OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025

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“Loony.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loony. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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