variants or meshugge also meshugah or meshuggah

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for meshuga
Adjective
  • When smart algorithms do stupid things But scratch beneath the surface, and the cracks start showing.
    Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025
  • America has funded the Ukrainian government, Ukrainian pensions, and Ukrainian businesses during this entire stupid war that America should have nothing to do with.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • But the tone swings between sour and sweet, grounded and silly, and the jokes run more broadly wacky than precise or original.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2025
  • In my eyes, much of the charm of a craft brewer is a willingness to be a little silly.
    Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 13 Oct. 2025
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
  • 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
  • Orús and Lizaso believe that the AI arms race is foolish.
    Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The Eagles were undone by foolish penalties, including two flags that negated first downs on a potential go-ahead drive in the fourth quarter and one flag that extended a Broncos drive late in the game when the Eagles had forced a fourth down.
    Zach Berman, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Poetry brings hope, not an irrational optimism or wishful thinking, but a positive orientation to the future, of what a better, healthier future would look like.
    K.J.S. “Sunny” Anand, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Marks believes that investor optimism doesn’t automatically signal irrational exuberance.
    Yun Li, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • There was also, perhaps, general irritation at the idea that such a successful team should be the recipient of so much dumb luck.
    Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Many students have acted boldly, and occasionally made dumb mistakes, because they were outraged by historical wrongs, incendiary speakers, cultural stereotypes, or other provocations.
    Christopher L. Eisgruber, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
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“Meshuga.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meshuga. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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