variants
or meshugge
also meshugah
or meshuggah
as in stupid
showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment
You've got to be meshuga if you think she is going to go out with you.
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Adjective
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The real star of this episode, however, was Gretchen Christine Beauté and her stupid Lara Croft outfit.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025 -
Among the colorful cast of rogues, villains, queens and clergymen, Andre The Giant stands out as the young suitor’s kind-hearted but stupid brute.—
Duane Byrge,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Teenagers with faces painted green — some with blow up green sumo-wrestler suits — and mountains of silly string take over the streets.—
Manal Albarakati,
semafor.com,
22 Sep. 2025
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What made the moment extra-special, though, was seeing Noah's silly side shine through.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Is Hinako mad, or is the world around her mad?—
Vincent Acovino,
NPR,
22 Sep. 2025
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Many teammates were rightfully mad.—
Eli Thompson,
Rolling Stone,
20 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The only thing that may be crazier than the actual football life is this satirical comedy-drama that has more to do with a hedonistic existence than play-action passes.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
19 Sep. 2025
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And yet, the craziest thing to me is having a little autonomous robot doing my yard work.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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This place belongs to the Carver, a deranged butcher who hunts anything foolish enough to enter.—
Meredith G. White,
AZCentral.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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France had been humiliated in 1871 by Prussia in a foolish war of its own making, and Dreyfus, accused of passing military secrets to the Germans, was a convenient scapegoat in a time of national malaise.—
Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Consciousness, human life, utterly in the grip of its own dreamlife, all our thinking and voicing caught in a web of surreal distortion, generated by our irrational yearning and apprehensions, our appetite for myth, our solipsism.—
Jane Ciabattari
September 25,
Literary Hub,
25 Sep. 2025
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Still, Williams is quick to defend the character’s seemingly irrational actions, reminding us how Rain’s past experiences inform her present-day motivations.—
Andy Swift,
TVLine,
20 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Turns out, the two actors/singers have been gaga for each other (terrible pun, sorry) for a long time.—
Katherine J. Igoe,
Marie Claire,
27 Feb. 2019
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Juul, a startup that makes e-cigarettes that teenagers are gaga for, is raising $1.2 billion in a round that would value the company at $15 billion — on par with companies like Lyft or Snap.—
Recode Staff,
Recode,
10 July 2018
Adjective
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Free speech covers the jokes, the satire, the parodies—even the dumb, crass, or offensive ones.—
Lizz Winstead,
Time,
27 Sep. 2025
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On the flipside, Kimmel, like everyone else with a boss, is not protected against saying dumb stuff and getting fired.—
Matt Fleming,
Oc Register,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Meshuga.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meshuga. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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