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as in insanity
a foolish act or idea
you want to sneak into the building after the alarm is set—what lunacy!
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as in dementia
a serious mental disorder that prevents one from living a safe and normal life
the judge ruled that the lunacy of the accused made him incompetent to stand trial
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as in madness
lack of good sense or judgment
was it desperation or lunacy that caused him to quit his job and move to California without any plan for what to do when he got there?
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Recent Examples of lunacy
To suggest that anyone who vaccinates their kids doesn’t love them is a whole new level of lunacy.
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Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 29 Jan. 2025
As the protagonist consumed by an obsessive need to clean, Jan Hooks evokes Tennessee Williams heroine lunacy.
—The New York Times, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
The cast try their best to keep up with such lunacy.
—Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
The sheer quantity of extremist marketing lunacy churned out by Old State Saloon in Eagle is astonishing.
—Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 10 Jan. 2025
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Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 29 Jan. 2025
As the protagonist consumed by an obsessive need to clean, Jan Hooks evokes Tennessee Williams heroine lunacy.
—The New York Times, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
The cast try their best to keep up with such lunacy.
—Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
The sheer quantity of extremist marketing lunacy churned out by Old State Saloon in Eagle is astonishing.
—Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 10 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lunacy
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Dominguez has pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity in the stabbing deaths of David Breaux, 50, and Karim Abou Najm, 20, at Davis’ Central and Sycamore parks; and the wounding of Kimberlee Guillory, then 64, in her tent in the city’s downtown.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
24 May 2025
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And in the insanity of general religion, why not a dolphin Jesus?—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
15 May 2025
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Though its symptoms mimic those of dementia, NPH is reversible and can be treated with surgery to implant valves that allow CSF to drain into the chest or abdomen rather than the brain.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
23 May 2025
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Devon lives with her father (Bill Camp), who is in early stages of dementia and requires considerable looking after.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
22 May 2025
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And, last weekend, in the midst of Met Gala madness, the four iconic artist-entrepreneurs were reunited at the show’s 20th anniversary.—
India Espy-Jones,
Essence,
14 May 2025
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In some Asian and Middle Eastern traditions, dementia was historically associated with madness or idiocy.—
Marion Renault,
The Atlantic,
13 May 2025
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The White House has cited legislation passed during the peak of the nation’s Cold War hysteria, like the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, which expanded the government’s deportation powers.—
Rick Baldoz,
The Conversation,
30 Apr. 2025
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The lynchings take place against a backdrop of hysteria created by the R.S.S. and its allies—a paranoid narrative of a vast majority, nearly a billion strong, being victimized by a much smaller minority.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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CHiPs was real, Kid Cop Nights is fake, and neither the two-dimensional storytelling of the former nor the hacky absurdity of the latter seem to have much in common with either of the shows referencing them.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
17 May 2025
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The latest teaser trailer features some of the same delightful absurdity as the 1984 original.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Time,
16 May 2025
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So perhaps the clearest difference between the final months of O’Neil and the early months of Pereira has been simplicity.—
Steve Madeley,
New York Times,
19 May 2025
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The simplicity of getting your feet wet with these tools means that most of your time will be spent dealing with a company's security and compliance teams.—
Jeff Catlin,
Forbes.com,
19 May 2025
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“Lunacy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lunacy. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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